A planning application has been submitted by Scottish Power to build a clean energy and hydrogen production hub in Scotland. The project would be based at ScottishPower's 539MW Whitelee wind farm,...
Boris Johnson is being urged by several built environment professionals, including the RTPI, to reverse new regulations that will see parts of the planning process skipped to turn commercial b...
Regardless of a lowering in emissions from the COVID pandemic, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have hit record highs.
Data taken from the recording station at Mauna...
A director was ordered to pay £50,000 in fines, compensation and legal costs, whilst the other faces a five-year ban as a company director, for operating an illegal waste wood operation in Es...
On 1 April 2020, Natural England and Natural Resources Wales published an updated version of the Countryside Code to help people enjoy the outdoors.<...
Following a worker's fall through a skylight during the construction of a new farm building in Wimborne, Cutler Bros Ltd. and it's Director, Roger Martin Cutler, have been sentenced.
On 22...
Plans for a new secondary and special education needs (SEN) school in Sutton have been approved even though the housing secretary noted that it did not fulfil a policy requirement for "exemplary de...
Ministers are considering a proposal to make tobacco companies pay for litter created by smokers and cigarette butts as part of the extended producer responsibility scheme, currently proposed in th...
In September 2020 the Government launched the Green Homes Grant Scheme to help households insulate their homes. However the scheme reached just 10% of its target household, and is being closed on 3...
A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Kent is under threat from a new theme park development.
Swanscombe Peninsula was declared an SSSI when Kent Wildlife Trust, the RSPB and Bugl...
Last year the Government made a series of changes to permitted development...
Whilst 2020 is a year many of us may not remember fondly, there was a positive first in 2020 for the UK's energy generation. For the first time, in 2020, renewable energy provided more of the UK's...
An agency worker fell 1.8 metres from a blade platform leading to the Energy company Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy Ltd being fined.
The agency worker was off work for several months with...
Nasmyth Technologies Limited have been fined after causing significant ill health to four employees after exposing them to a chemical spill.
Between 150 and 200 litres of a chemical prepara...
Theme park, Drayton Manor, have been sentenced after the death of 11 year-old Evha Jannath on 9 May 2017.
The schoolgirl was on a class trip to the park when she fell out of a raft on the S...
