Technical Services

IEMA is the leading provider of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) quality assurance services in the UK.

As a not for profit organisation, the advice we offer reflects our objective of promoting best practice in environmental assessment and management. We are impartial and able to offer an independent perspective on the quality of any EIA or SEA.

IEMA also operates a number of specialist registers of competent and approved individuals and organisations in a number of fields. By choosing an IEMA registered professional, you can be assured of an exceptionally high level of professionalism, knowledge, competence and experience.

To display IEMA registered professionals and organisations please click on the relevant links: Registered EIA Assessors; SiLC; Auditors.

Services for Local Planning Authorities

As a Local Planning Authority (LPA) you are faced with a wide range of decision making situations where you need to consider complex and technical environmental information, be it undertaking an SEA of a Local Development Framework or a Mineral Plan, or analysing an Environmental Statement (ES) submitted in support of a planning application.

Ensuring that this environmental information is sufficient requires environmental expertise and a considerable amount of time; two things that LPA’s may not have freely available. IEMA can help.

We have developed a number of services to help LPA’s fulfil their role as a decision maker, including:

• EIA
• Scoping Services
• Environmental Statement Review Services
• SEA
• Environmental Report Review Services

Services for Consultancies

Good practice standards in environmental assessment are continually evolving. As a practicing consultancy it can sometimes be difficult to keep up with these changes. We have developed a number of services that will help you benchmark and improve the quality of your environmental assessment work, including:

• EIA
  • Scoping Services
  • Process Review Service
  • Environmental Statement Review Services
• SEA
  • Process Review Service
  • Environmental Report Review Services