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Withers Environmental Consultants is a professional environmental consultancy providing a wide range of specialist expertise in the integrated environmental field to the land use and development planning, civil engineering and environmental fraternity, and local and government authorities.  The consultancy offers a wide range of experience in all aspects of environmental concern, ranging from the use of Bioregional Planning Principles in environmental planning for Spatial Planning projects (such as Spatial Development Plans for local Municipal areas and Regional Planning for large District Municipalities), to provide policy guidelines on spatial development and conservation issues for ensuring that the environmental opportunities and constraints offered by the applicable planning area will foster long term sustainable development proposals; through to providing an environmental planning input at the local level at the inception of proposed development projects, to ensure that anticipated environmental impacts are minimised.  Many of these regionally-based policy formulation and detailed development projects rely on facilitating extensive public participation programmes to ensure that public sentiments are taken into consideration.

Environmental impact assessments of development projects are also conducted in accordance with the Integrated Environmental Management procedure for obtaining the relevant decisions in terms of the Regulations of the National Environmental Management Act (Act 107 of 1998) and other environmental legislation. 

The implementation of environmental management systems, involving environmental controls, remediation and monitoring during the development and operational stages of development projects, is also conducted in terms of ISO 14 001 standards.  Environmental audits of the operational aspects of developments are also undertaken to ensure that sustainable development is realised and promoted.