As a way to lessen the effects of climate change, the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report has posed the idea that improving how land is managed is...
The Housing Minister, Esther McVey has committed £2 million to aid councils to "crack down on illegal developments" that are taking place in the green belt.
Councils w...
Plymouth City Council has used the occasion of the 13th European Biennial of Towns and Town Planners 2019 conference, in order to announce its intention to make Plymouth the UK's first Nationa...
Local Authorities have declared climate emergencies have become an epidemic in 2019.
A city council in Darebin, Australia - having noticed the past 16 out of 17 years were the warmest...
A groundworks company has been fined, following an incident in which a security guard sustained serious hand injuries, while helping a plant driver at a site in Avonmouth.
On 17 Novem...
The Health and Safety Authority (HSA) are carrying out a workplace safety blitz on quarries.
The Quarry Safety Week campaign will run from the 9th to the 16th of Se...
Despite a significant rise in the dangerous greenhouse gas, Sulphur Hexafluoride (SF6), there has been change in the North Sea regarding the methods to generate electricity.
Situated i...
Sulphur Hexafluoride (SF6) is widely used in the electrical industry in order to prevent short circuits and accidents, and is widely reported as the most powerful greenhouse gas known to human...
Fulford Parish Council has appealed against a refusal of permission, to seek judicial review of a planning decision that was made by the respondent local planning authority. Under the
The Cardiff skyline is at risk of being full of vacant buildings after an 'over-saturation' of luxury student flats, warns a leading architect.
In the past five years, proposals to create a...
Fish in the River Exe can swim easier upstream, now that a fish pass has temporarily been extended.
Except during times of heavy flow, salmon and trout have been unable to get beyond T...
Dacorum Borough Council has been fined for exposing seven grounds maintenance workers to Hand Arm Vibration (HAVS), caused by excessive use of power tools.
Luton Magistrates' Cour...
Pretoria Energy Company (Arable) Limited, a company that produces feedstock for a sister company’s anaerobic digestion plants, admitted causing pollution to watercourses in Emneth Hungate, No...
A major campaign has been launched to encourage the UK public to help the country to protect water resources for future generations.
'Love Water' is a campaign involving more than 40 enviro...
An employee has been fined after an apprentice sustained serious injuries when he fell from a potato box lifted by a forklift truck.
Peterborough Magistrates' Court heard how in July 2018,...
