Environmental Impact Assessment
We are a market-leader in EIA and environmental planning and assessment, having been a registrant on the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA)’s EIA Quality Mark Scheme since its inception in 2009.
With EIA being a legal requirement for developments likely to have significant effects on the environment, they also offer an opportunity to maximise the environmental and social outcomes of projects, creating exceptional places to live, work and play.
Our bespoke, commercially-minded approach to projects sees us our wide-ranging team of experts advising at all stages from feasibility and planning through to design and implementation. We focus on early engagement with relevant stakeholders and providing proportionate, yet robust assessments which enable consenting authorities to make timely decisions on schemes that are cost effective and deliverable.
Operating across the UK, our EIA team has helped clients successfully deliver high-profile estate regeneration projects, mixed-used urban regeneration developments, strategic land schemes, tall buildings, industrial and logistics facilities, world-class leisure destinations, marinas and port upgrades.
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Key Services
EIA Services
Environmental Impact Assessment – management and coordination, scoping, acting as lead author and editor of the Environmental Statement
Transport planning
Air quality
Noise and vibration
Ecology and biodiversity net gain
Archaeology and built heritage
Ground conditions and contamination
Flood risk and drainage
Townscape and visual impact assessment
Daylight, sunlight, overshadowing and solar glare
Socio-economics
Wind microclimate
Climate change and greenhouse gas emissions
Environmental Planning Services
Arboricultural survey and impact assessment
Potable water assessment
Health impact assessment
Outline site waste management plan
Operational waste management strategy
Framework construction environmental management plan
Biodiversity net gain assessment
Habitats regulations assessments
Water Framework Directive assessment
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Key Contact
Based in strategic locations around the UK, our EIA team is supporting schemes across a wide range of sectors. Our in-house specialists work collaboratively to achieve optimum commercially-focused outcomes, always with deliverability in mind.

Lara Knapman
Technical Director and National EIA Lead

Polly Clifton
Technical Director and London EIA Team Lead

Ruth Martin
Technical Director
“Waterman has been instrumental in their multidisciplinary abilities in both infrastructure and environmental services at Canada Water to enable one of the largest, flexible planning applications submitted across London. Their technical capabilities, and approach to problem solving have been a key part to our success to date, and our future business planning”
Symon Bacon, Development Director, British Land
“Waterman has been instrumental in their multidisciplinary abilities in both infrastructure and environmental services at Canada Water to enable one of the largest, flexible planning applications submitted across London. Their technical capabilities, and approach to problem solving have been a key part to our success to date, and our future business planning”
Symon Bacon, Development Director, British Land