The Land Drainage Improvement Works (Assessment of Environmental Effects) Regulations 1988
These Regulations implement for England and Wales, in respect of land drainage improvement works proposed by a water authority, internal drainage board or local authority (“the drainage body”), the Council Directive 85/337/EEC on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (O.J. No. L175, 5.7.85, p.40). They provide a procedure for the provision of an environmental statement covering the matters specified in the Schedule, relating to such improvements by the drainage body where that body considers that by reason of, inter alia, their nature, size or location the proposed works are likely to have a significant effect on the environment (regulation 3).