Integrated Environmental Impacts Assessment

Greensteps provides a full range of EIA and SEA services to clients across all our business sectors and throughout all our operating areas.Greensteps provides a diverse range of services to assist clients who need to undertake an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in support of a specific development, or a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of a larger scale concept or planning policy. The level of support Greensteps can offer ranges from individual technical sections through to complete management of the SEA / EIA and the associated planning process. We are particularly used to assessing large, complex projects across all Business Areas.

Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) is a process used to assess the environmental and socio-economic consequences (which can be positive as well as negative) of a project and provides information to decision makers and stakeholders prior to deciding whether to permit a project.Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) are prepared to ensure that environmental, socio-economic and sustainability aspects are considered effectively in policy, plan and programme making.
Many of the staff managing the EIA process, and the technical experts contributing to the assessment also have Expert Witness experience


How can Greensteps Help?

Clients are typically developers or industrial clients, but Greensteps also provides pragmatic reviews of EIA work to regulators and other interested parties. Our SEA clients tend to be bodies that wish to assess the impacts of their policy-making guidance and decisions.

Greensteps can manage and deliver an entire EIA project from concept, pre-feasibility through to feasibility using experienced EIA project managers and its teams of technical specialists; or our technical experts can provide input on one or more discrete EIA topics. We also have key staff that are able to provide technical peer review as may be required for the more contentious projects to ensure that the assessment is robust and thorough.

Greensteps approach to EIA work is iterative, working constructively to assess impacts and then to optimise project proposals to minimise those impacts whilst maintaining project viability. Our EIA managers have expertise in specific business sectors which they use to work pro-actively with their colleagues and clients to achieve a positive outcome.

Our aim is to be to Provide planning and environmental support for a range of development schemes.
We undertake the studies in accordance with EMCA Cap 387.