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Experience West Bengal (Theme Holidays in West Bengal)
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Scoping
What is Scoping?
Scoping is used to identify the key issues of concern at an early stage in the planning process. Scoping should be carried out at an early stage in order to aid site selection and identify any possible alternatives. The scoping process should involve all interested parties such as the proponent and planning or environmental agencies and members of the public. The results of scoping will form determine the scope, depth and terms of reference to be addressed within the Environmental Statement.
Why carry out Scoping?
- To identify the key issues and concerns of the interested parties.
- Who is concerned?
- What are their concerns?
- Why are they concerned?
- What is the threshold of concern where change becomes unacceptable?
When ineffective scoping occurs delays are caused by additional time being required to assess
unidentified impacts.
Once the site for development has been selected the scoping angle changes. There will be a decrease in the number of issues and an increase in attention to detail .Scoping should be an ongoing exercise throughout the course of the project.
An assessment for this module envolves carrying out a scoping exercise on a site near Keighley.