The UK has managed to go a full month without generating any energy from coal. Thanks to the drop in energy demand due to lockdown, National Grid confirmed this week that as of 10 May 2020, the UK...
Elon Musk's company, Tesla have applied to generate electricity in the UK market documents from the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (ofgem) reveal.
Tesla, ...
According to the world's energy watchdog, the International Energy Agency (IEA), renewable electricity will be the only source able to overcome the biggest global energy sho...
Historic England has launched a fund of up to £2 million to tackle the impact of COVID-19 on the heritage sector.
The fund should act as a "safety net" for the...
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...
