Bishops Waltham Action Group

Winchester County Council have decided that an Environmental Impact Assessment will not be required for the Abbey Mill site. The EIA is determined on very specific guidelines which the council felt did not apply to a supermarket. This is not good news, as the final planning application can now proceed more quickly. However planners assure us that this is not unusual, and so the fight goes on.

[An environmental impact assessment (or EIA) is a way of providing decision makers with information about the effects that a given project could have on the environment considering natural, social and economic aspects. The purpose of the assessment is to ensure that decision makers consider the ensuing environmental impacts to decide whether to proceed with the project.]