Licensing and Environmental Assessment
Our consultants provide a diverse range of environmental planning and engineering services for a wide range of clients.We aim to provide sound scientific advice that facilitates a responsible decision making process to enable clients to achieve their objectives in an efficient, environmentally sound manner.
The services that we provide include the following:
- Licensing Processes;
Dredging, foreshore, marine works, etc. - Acquisition of a New Disposal Site;
Including all services required from inception to award. - Design, Implementation and Interpretation of Monitoring programmes;
Including bathymetric, water quality, sediment, etc. - Natura Impact Statements for Appropriate Assessments (AA);
Including advice on all aspects of an AA process including screening/scoping reports and Natura Impact Statements (NIS). - Environmental Impact Statements;
Including an assessment of the various facets of the environmental impact of a proposed project for gaining necessary consents. - Water Framework Directive (WFD) Assessments;
Including determining if a specific activity will compromise a WFD objective or result in the deterioration in the ecological status of any water bodies. - Maintenance Dredging Baseline Document.
Including compiling all available information pertinent to the activity and assisting competent authorities in identifying 'likely significant effects'. - Best Practicable Environmental Option (BPEO)
Includes the identification, for a given set of objectives, the option that provides the most benefits or the least damage to the environment, as a whole, in the short and long term, within logistical and economic constraints.