Environmental Impact Assessment

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Across
  1. 1. MajorInfrastructural development can be referred in this way
  2. 4. The term used to assess ecological condition in the absence of the proposed development
  3. 5. The Act of Parliament that has shaped the planning system, many features of which are retained to this day
  4. 7. Separate government guidance on NSIPs is documented in these
  5. 9. The main day to day administration of the planning system at local level
  6. 10. A category of development where an EIA will always be required
  7. 11. Total number of a species in a given area
  8. 12. A category of development that due its size, scale and location will need assessing against stated thresholds
  9. 13. The extent of the buffer zone where direct/indirect impacts could have detrimental effect on wildlife
  10. 15. The stage in the EIA process that determines whether an EIA is required
  11. 18. Aspects of potential ecological importance are known as ..... what?
  12. 19. The latest initiative looking to increase biodiversity value as a result of development taking place
  13. 20. A standardised system of ecosystem classification
Down
  1. 2. The process that is triggered if it is deemed that the development proposed is likely to have significant impact
  2. 3. The planning body whose job it is to approve NSIPs proposals
  3. 6. National planning policy advising on sustainable development
  4. 8. Groups of people that have specific interests in a development that could have very different opinions
  5. 14. Acquiring ecological information without leaving the office
  6. 16. Land use planning can be referred to as the use and management of land in the .... what?
  7. 17. The stage in the EIA process that informs on the information required to assess the biodiversity value of a site