{"id":7727,"date":"2023-06-14T14:38:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T12:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.systra.com\/uk\/?post_type=services&p=7727"},"modified":"2025-04-25T10:42:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T09:42:55","slug":"environmental-consents-and-planning","status":"publish","type":"services","link":"https:\/\/www.systra.com\/uk\/services\/environmental-services\/environmental-consents-and-planning\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental Consents and Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SYSTRA environmental consents and planning specialists provide environmental impact assessments, project design support, public consultations, planning advice and guidance to help clients gain approvals for new transport and infrastructure developments.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Managing environmental approvals for infrastructure schemes <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Any new infrastructure or construction project needs to be carefully planned and designed to ensure it delivers the intended outcomes for people, the environment and the economy \u2013 without causing harm or disruption to the wider environment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Securing planning permission or consent for new infrastructure projects is a specialised process in a highly regulated landscape. Planners and developers need to navigate complex consent and planning issues to give their projects the greatest chance of success. Planning applications may require data and insights from research, surveys and forecasts into environmental and economic impacts, as well as engagement and consultation with multiple stakeholders, to achieve success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The environmental consulting specialists at SYSTRA have wide-ranging expertise in dealing with complex planning consent issues. Our highly qualified specialists have the necessary depth of experience to unlock essential planning permissions within tight deadlines \u2013 preventing delays to critical infrastructure programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

our experience<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Discover how SYSTRA has applied innovation, technology and ingenuity to re-think infrastructure engineering solutions to optimise time, budget, safety and sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n
VIEW CASE STUDIES<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>
\"\"<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n

SYSTRA has all the environmental consulting expertise required to help clients navigate the highly regulated planning consent process, engaging with multiple stakeholders to ensure permissions are granted within key project deadlines.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Our environmental planning expertise means we can provide practical advice to clients on infrastructure, environmental or construction projects on any scale to help avoid, remedy or mitigate potential environmental impacts. We can work closely with design teams to give projects the best chance of achieving environmental consents, and we can help to prepare consent application documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

We liaise with statutory authorities to discuss consent requirements and can undertake surveys to confirm the presence or absence of protected species and types of waste on site (via GI surveys), as well as conducting baseline noise surveys to inform Section 61 consents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Successful planning permission applications<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Our consents team has experience in preparing planning applications, environmental impact assessments and supporting documentation for a wide range of development types and scales, with a particular focus on highway, rail and other major infrastructure developments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The team specialises in approvals in accordance with the High Speed Rail (London – West Midlands) Act 2017, the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended), the Transport and Works Act 1992 and the Planning Act 2008. We have expertise in formulating consents strategies, applying permitted development rights, reserved matters approvals, the discharge of planning conditions, and comparative site assessments and appraisals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Environmental consent management<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Our team includes specialists who have worked as consents managers on a variety of projects, ensuring we identify all required environmental consents for each project. We support clients from the feasibility stage through to outline and full planning applications, transport and works act orders, and even the individual consents required for design and construction. At the feasibility stage, we work with design teams to identify and avoid key constraints \u2013 saving both time and money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>
\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n

AREAS OF EXPERTISE<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
<\/div>\n\n\n\n