Conservation Areas and Strategic Environmental Assessment
How will the environmental impacts of proposed conservation
areas be taken into account?
All Councils are required to identify areas of special
architectural or historic interest and designate these as
conservation areas.
Under the Environmental Assessment (Scotland) Act 2005 the Council
must determine whether its plans, programmes and strategies require
Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA). The Council carries
out a Screening procedure and consults with the Consultation
Authorities (Historic Scotland, Scottish Environment Protection
Agency and Scottish Natural Heritage) to decide whether SEA is
required. Following discussion with the
Consultation Authorities however it has been decided that
future conservation area appraisals should not require SEA unless
they contain proposals with particularly significant environmental
effects.
Find out more about Strategic Environmental Assessment generally
from the SEA pages on this web site or from the
Scottish Government's SEA Gateway.
