Infrastructure minister Nichola Mallon has announced changes to the process for large planning applications, including temporarily removing the requirement to hold a public event as part of the pre...
Planning consultancy Barton Willmore, has predicted that the coronavirus pandemic could cause annual housing completions to drop by around 94,000 homes by 2024/2025.
The analysis is predict...
Two people were arrested following a raid on an illegal waste site the size of a football pitch in Lincolnshire.
Environment Agency officers and Lincolnshire Police...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published a series of guidance pages for operators of major hazard establishments, COMAH sites, under the Control of Major Accident...
The Government has published the 2019 results of the Housing Delivery Test, which shows that eight local authorities failed to deliver more than 45% of their housing target.
These local aut...
The Law Society of England and Wales Planning and Environmental Law Committee and the City of London Law Society Planning and Environmental Law Committee have outlined a number of planning measures...
Wherever you look, whether it is in media publications, on social media or even just conversations with friends over video chat platforms, questions are beginning to arise about how current COVID-1...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published an open letter to the food industry in response to concerns raised originally by bakeries, but the relevance of the point...
22 April 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, an annual event celebrated across the globe to show support for environmental protection.
Celebrations for this year have taken a digi...
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is advising healthcare workers, currently using respiratory protective equipment (RPE), on the importance of ensuring it is fitted...
Due to the limited supply of disposable respiratory protective equipment (RPE), hospitals in the UK are no longer insisting on appropriate fit tests of FFP3 face masks for doctors and nurses before...
Director of A Morrey Distribution Limited (AMDL) faces a bill of £84,000 for failing to comply with an enforcement notice, requiring him to submit a Fire Prevention Plan for a former permitte...
The crucial 26 UN conference of the parties (COP) was originally scheduled to take place in Glasgow on November 2020. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, it had to be postponed until nex...
A manufacturer of a steel gate has been fined after an eight-year-old girl was crushed at a London primary school.
Westminster Magistrates' Court heard that in May 2018 the girl was leaving...
An agency worker at E.G.L Homecare Limited suffered a severe crush injury to his arm as he attempted to remove dirt from a press roller.
He was working on a production line that glued spong...
