The paper gives an outline of the content of the department of transport's manual of environmental appraisal and how it will be applied. The role of environmental appraisal will be set in the wider content of scheme appraisal which involves the use of the traffic appraisal and COBA manuals. Finally, there will be a brief review of the work that has been done to try and develop a common technique to assess lorry nuisance.(a) for the covering abstract of the proceedings see IRRD 274491.
Abstract