Environmental Impact Guidance
Checklist of Questions
These 8 questions are designed to prompt you to consider the environmental impacts that your policy option may have.
Answering the questions is not easy if you don't have any knowledge of the issues involved - so by clicking on each question, you can access brief guidance designed to give you the knowledge you need and the contacts you need to appraise any significant impacts.
- Will the policy option lead to a change in the emission of greenhouse gases?
- Will the policy option be vulnerable to the predicted effects of climate change?
- Will the policy option lead to a change in the financial costs or the environmental and health impacts of waste management?
- Will the policy option impact significantly on air quality?
- Will the policy option involve any material change to the appearance of the landscape or townscape?
- Will the proposal change 1) the degree of water pollution, 2) levels of abstraction of water or 3) exposure to flood risk?
- Will the policy option disturb or enhance habitat or wildlife?
- Will the policy option affect the number of people exposed to noise or the levels to which they're exposed?
You can also access the guidance on each question by using the side menu.
Page last modified: 16 November 2004
Page Published: 16 November 2004