Strategic Environmental Assessment Directive and local transport planning Available to Purchase

This paper sets out what strategic environmental assessment is, and what the purposes of it are in the context of local transport plans. It outlines what should be in a strategic environmental assessment environmental report, and specifically discusses the strategic environmental assessment process in relation to local transport plans. The paper also offers advice on complying with the requirements of the Directive, in particular focusing on those tasks that local authorities and others have found difficult to date. Finally it recommends some steps to achieving ‘strategic environmental assessment without tears’.