Consent, across four jurisdictions.

For a waste or energy project, consent is the item on the critical path that sets the investment decision date. Redrock develops and defends the planning and environmental case across Ireland, Australia, the UK and Nigeria, from pre-application strategy through EIS authorship to determination and conditions.

Jurisdictions

The same discipline, five regimes.

The statutes change from place to place; the discipline does not. Fix the pathway early, negotiate the assessment scope hard, and treat consent as a programme item, not a formality.

Ireland

Development consent under the Planning and Development Act, Strategic Infrastructure Development to An Bord Pleanála, EIAR authorship, and Appropriate Assessment where a Natura 2000 site is in play.

New South Wales

The EP&A Act pathways, State Significant Development, the EIS written to the SEARs, and the operational Environment Protection Licence that often sets the real critical path.

Victoria & Queensland

Victoria under the Planning and Environment Act with an Environment Effects Statement; Queensland under the Planning Act with Environmentally Relevant Activities licensing.

United Kingdom

Town and Country Planning Act consent, Nationally Significant Infrastructure and Development Consent Orders where thresholds are met, and EIA to the current regulations.

Nigeria

The EIA Act administered by the Federal Ministry of Environment, category screening and terms of reference, and NESREA operating permits, mapped by analogy for a sector with no bespoke rules.

What we do

From pre-app to determination.

Pre-application strategy

The consent strategy is set at pre-lodgement, not first submission. We fix the pathway, the assessment scope and the consultee list before any study is commissioned.

EIS / EIAR authorship

We scope, coordinate and author the environmental impact statement, managing the specialist team from air and odour to ecology and heritage.

Approvals sequencing

Planning consent, operational licence and secondary approvals run as parallel tracks with different regulators, sequenced so none becomes the surprise long pole.

Objection & risk management

The risk case is built around who could object and what they could argue, with design-led mitigation set early to close issues before determination.

Methodology

A written methodology behind the case.

Our planning work runs on a documented methodology suite: a common EIA framework and an EIS chapter template, and jurisdiction-specific planning-pathway playbooks that set out the pre-application approach, the risk register and the consultee map for each regime.

That means a new project starts from a proven method rather than a blank page, and every submission is built to a consistent, defensible standard.

EP&A Act (NSW) SSD / EIS / SEARs Planning & Development Act (IE) An Bord Pleanála / SID EIAR & Appropriate Assessment EES (VIC) / ERA (QLD) TCPA / DCO (UK) Nigeria EIA Act / NESREA

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