Environmental planning

The route of Hong Kong’s new Ngong Ping cable car route crosses a spectacular country park – so making sure it’s a flagship project for sustainability was a crucial part of our environmental consultancy roleEnvironmental planning and impact assessment are core businesses for us. We maintain centres of excellence in all the technical specialist areas, such as air, water, soil, noise, socio-economics, ecology and landscape.

We have also built the expertise and techniques that allow us to take a holistic view of the impacts of developments. Because we also ensure our designers and planners work alongside environ-mentalists, this means that environmental mitigation and protect-ion is designed into a scheme from the outset.

In all proposed developments, the interface between planning and environmental issues is critical. Our urban planners and environ-mental scientists work closely on planning and zoning appli-cations, consult with relevant authorities and interested parties, evaluate site potential and prepare development briefs.

Mott MacDonald has been responsible for the environ-mental assessment of massive projects in recent years, such as oilfield developments in Pakistan and the Middle East, cable car projects in Hong Kong and the Crossrail and A3 Hindhead tunnel schemes in the UK. We have also achieved recognition as a leader in pre-paring Strategic Environmental Assessments of the policies and strategies of local government as well as national government and governmental agencies.

Our integrated planning and permitting services provide customers with all that is needed to obtain environmental permitting for operation, including planning consents, abstraction and discharge licences and integrated pollution control permits. Illustrating our level of expertise, our recent successful applications for environ-mental and planning permits from the UK government and local government for the construction of a new gas pipeline from the Netherlands to the UK were highly commended.

Services

Environmental impact assessment (EIA)
Environmental permitting and licensing
Environmental planning
Environmental screening and scoping
Integrated pollution control
Landscape planning
Site selection
Social impact assessment
Strategic environmental assessment (SEA)