Introduction
Transport Scotland
Transport Scotland is the national transport agency for Scotland. It is responsible for maintaining, upgrading and monitoring the trunk road network. The protection and enhancement of the environment is an important aspect of all its projects.
Purpose of this document
This Guidance Note provides Transport Scotland’s advice on the key statutory requirements for environmental impact assessment (EIA) for road projects. This is not intended to be a complete guide to EIA, but provides the principal stages where Transport Scotland has statutory obligations. It also provides some advice on non-statutory environmental assessments.
This Guidance Note provides advice on all types of road intervention type projects and replaces any previous guidance.
A checklist for the EIA process is included in Appendix A.