Strategic environmental assessment
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The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) defines a strategic environmental assessment as:
'A procedure (set out in the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004) which requires the formal environmental assessment of certain plans and programmes which are likely to have significant effects on the environment.'
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