The results of the Housing Delivery Test 2021 have been published, showing that 51 councils did not deliver 75% of their housing target for 2021, meaning they now face the presumption in favour of...
The government has published the third assessment of risks of climate change on the UK. The assessment is required to be published every five years under the Climate Change Act...
A study published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology has claimed that chemical pollution has passed a safe limit for humans. This level of pollution threatens the stability of gl...
Staff in England's Environment Agency are told to "shut down" and ignore reports of low impact pollution events due to lack of available funds for investigation, according t...
According to a publication from the House of Lords Built Environment Committee, entitled meeting housing demand, delays to the reform of the planning system is having a negative effect on housebuil...
The new Plastics Packaging Tax will come into force from 1 April 2022.
The key facts of this tax are:
- the aim is to incentivise the use of recycled material in the production...
The UK government is being sued by two environmental law organisations, Client Earth and Friends of the Earth, separately over the failure to include necessary policies to deliver promised cuts in...
The Staffordshire council's wildlife trust is trialling the reintroduction of beavers to local rivers to alleviate flooding risk and improve natural habitats.
The dam-building rodents were...
The Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove, wrote to housing developers that he is willing to use "legal rules" to make them pay for the...
A gas installer in Cardiff has been prosecuted after claiming to be gas safe and carrying out gas work when they were not gas safe registered.
Jordan Louis Hare undertook a range of gas wor...
A resident in Poole has been prosecuted by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council after he was found to have poisoned a protected tree on his land.
Mr Robert Page had submitted two pla...
40 homes in Somerset have been granted outline planning permission despite the site having a high probability of flooding.
Sedgemoor District Council had refused the application initially b...
The Scottish Affairs Committee have begun an inquiry into hydrogen and carbon capture technologies in Scotland. This inquiry comes as the UK Government aims to create 5GW of low carbon hydrogen pro...
A new 32MW battery storage plant has been fired up near Bristol for the first time. The Hallen Battery Energy Storage Scheme, commissioned by Voltalia, released the first kWh of electricity on 23 D...
On midday 7 January 2021, the Hunterston B nuclear power station placed on the west coast of Scotland will shut down and await decommissioning after 47 years of service.
The power plant pro...
