Integrated Impact Assessment Services

Tender description

Winchester City Council invites applications from suitably experienced organisations who wish to be considered for selection to tender for Integrated Impact Assessment Services. Winchester City Council has started work on a new Local Plan which will replace and roll forward its existing Local Plans. The new Local Plan will cover the Winchester District excluding the South Downs National Park, which has its own adopted local plan. The Council is seeking to appoint suitably qualified Consultants to undertake an Integrated Impact Assessment (IIA) that fulfils the requirement for a Sustainability Appraisal (SA), Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), Equalities Impact Assessment (EIA) and Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and Habitats Regulations Assessment. By taking this integrated approach it avoids the need to undertake and report on separate assessments and it seeks to reduce any duplication of assessment work and benefits from a shared understanding of the outputs to inform policy development, particularly to reflect those elements such as climate change, green infrastructure, transport etc which cut across a variety of planning matters. The Contract will commence on 26 May 2020 and will be for a period of 3 years. Interested parties should register their interest in the project via the In-Tend website https://in-tendhost.co.uk/hampshire, and complete and submit the tender return document together with any supporting information requested by 12:00 hrs on Friday 24 April 2020