Decision-making v sustainability Statutory processes are often designed to deal with the many small projects that are often badly designed and environmentally unfriendly The larger the project, the more likely it is for the data collection and analysis to be comprehensive and expensive Organisations do not like spending – unless forced How can they be forced? Page 1

Post project monitoring Legal requirement for 3-year review needed Government to insist on seeing review report Consultants will have to build in costs for this Contracts will have to include for pre- during- and post- monitoring Costs will increase. Benefits: Better quality of prediction Environmental benefits and cheaper dredging Page 2