Environmental & Social Impact Assessment

CMP SHEQ provides a full range of EIA and SEA services to clients across all our business sectors CMP SHEQ 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 CMP SHEQ 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 or not 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 SLR Help?

Clients are typically developers or industrial clients, but CMP SHEQ also provides pragmatic reviews of EIA work to regulators and other interested parties. CMP SHEQ’s SEA clients tend to be governmental, construction and regulatory bodies that wish to assess the impacts of their policy-making guidance and decisions.
CMP SHEQ 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.
CMP SHEQ’s 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. CMP SHEQ’s 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.
Many of CMP SHEQ’s technical experts are practised at presenting technical evidence to regulatory bodies at decision making hearings as professional and/or judicial expert witnesses

• Full EIAs or free-standing technical reports from in-house experts.
• Many technical disciplines also have expert witness experience that can assist on more complex and contentious developments.
• Providing planning and environmental support for a range of development schemes.

CMP SHEQ Capabilities

• ESIA Scoping
• ESIA project management
• Environmental & Social Due Diligence (ESDD)
• Environmental & Social Impact (ESIA) Screening
• Environmental Audits
• Social and Environmental Management Plans (ESMP)
• Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) capability and expertise.
• Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) capability and expertise.
• Stakeholder Engagement & Consultation.
• Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP)