55,055 planning applications were submitted in England and Wales during February 2022, according to the Planning Portal.
Managing director Sarah Chilcott said that the year had "started str...
A flood hydrology roadmap, released on 22 March 2022, sets out a vision to help scientists and practitioners better predict future flood events and improve flood resilience across the UK.
T...
Two men were fined £469 each after fishing at night, and removing fish and eels, a protected species, from the River Avon in Worcestershire.
The incident happened in July 2021 and the...
As part of the government's £200 million flood and coast innovation programme, £36 million will be invested to explore innovative approaches of adapting to the effects of coastal erosio...
A spring manufacturing company has been fined after an employee had two fingers of his right hand severed whilst attempting to lubricate a bandsaw.
In October 2019 a labourer employed by Ha...
Infiniti Roofing and Construction Ltd has been sentenced for breaches of safety regulations after an employee fell through a gap in scaffolding, sustaining multiple injuries, whilst working on a bu...
The Department for Levelling Up, Communities and Local Government (DLUHC) has announced that 1,200 homes will be delivered in England through a £4 million Community Housing Fund.
The...
Today, 23 March 2022, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced that he will remove VAT on green home energy upgrades, a reduction in tax from previous rates of 5%.
As the prices of energy and fuel...
Following his roundtable meeting with the nuclear energy industry companies, such as British Rolls-Royce, French EDF and the US's Westinghouse and Betchel, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announce...
ClientEarth, alongside Friends of the Earth and the Good Law Project, has been given permission to sue the UK Government over its net zero plans. They argue that the Government has not yet put forw...
The Government has been increasingly indicating that they will be aiming to become more energy self-sufficient. The exact measures to be taken have yet to be announced, though the government has in...
George Eustice MP, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, has written to industry leaders about the UK REACH chemicals registration, outlining the Government’s intent...
The UK Department for Health and Social Care has decided to adopt Annex 8 to the EU Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) of Substances and Mixtures Regulation
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) have brought forward a proposal to restrict the use of all per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) in firefighting foams across the...
A new study carried out by the University of Exeter, the Potsdam institute for Climate Impact Research and the Technical University of Munich has suggested that the Amazon rainforest has been so ba...
