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...
In recent months the Government was focused on reforming the building safety law, following the findings of the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety by Dame Judith Hackitt.
Plans announced by the Government for large-scale nature recovery projects could see English farmers being paid to rewild their land.
Under the new plans, landowners and farmers will be abl...
Kirklees Metropolitan Council refused planning permission for a barn conversion near Holmfirth in January 2021. The original application sought to convert a barn, located on a farm in the West York...
The UK has been hit by flash flooding at least 51 times since 2007 causing major disturbances to hospitals, care homes and schools new analysis has found.
The study was carried out by "Brig...
Although we really hoped we wouldn't have to, we've taken the decision to delay our Roadshow and the online Homeshow until later in the year.
With Omicron cases rising significantly on a da...
A proposal to build a mixed-use development in the centre of Woking, which would have involved multistorey towers, has been dismissed on appeal.
In November 2019, Watkin Jones Group PLC and...
Staffordshire County Council has been prosecuted for failing to inspect and maintain trees found on a public footpath after a member of the public was struck and killed.
On 3 October 2019 a...
