On 24 February 2020, the Security Minister James Brokenshire announced plans to introduce a new law which will require owners and operators of public spaces to apply measures to keep the publi...
Research has suggested that housing sites comprising 2,000 or more homes take longer than eight years on average from application to completion.
According to research by planning consultanc...
Scotland's parks could provide low-carbon energy to heat 15% of the country's homes, according to new research.
A study of 3,500 green spaces suggested urban parks could be used to generate...
Experts have said Wales has the potential to lead in generating clean energy through hydrogen technology.
A new trade association to represent and advance the Welsh hydrogen economy launche...
After nearly five decades as one of western Europe's most polluting power plants, Drax power plant in Yorkshire will stop burning coal in March 2021.
The move comes well before the Governme...
JP Morgan Chase have announced that it will end fossil fuel loans for Arctic oil drilling and begin to phase out loans for coal mining by 2024 under new green pledge.
The bank is prohibitin...
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have launched a consultation to seek views on a new First Homes scheme that aims to deliver discounted homes for local people to improve ho...
The expansion of Heathrow airport in the form of a third runway has been ruled illegal by the Court of Appeal on the grounds of climate change.
The controversial plan, which has been o...
A waste management company, Peter Norris (Haulage) Ltd has been fined £140,000 after an agency worker suffered lower leg amputation after being struck by a moving excavator.
Westminst...
The City of Edinburgh Council has unveiled proposals to transform Edinburgh's largest brownfield site at Granton Waterfront into a new coastal town.
Central to this £1.3 bil...
Residents were contemplating taking legal action over An Bord Pleanála’s decision to approve more than 650 flats, in blocks up to nine storeys tall, in north Dublin.
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Research undertaken by the Local Government Association (LGA) has discovered that over one million homes, which have all been granted planning permission, are not being built. The analysis found th...
Wessex Water offered to pay an enforcement undertaking of £35,000 towards environmental improvements at Stoborough Heath nature reserve after a sewer main burst in January 2018, which po...
A self-employed gas fitter has been jailed following unsafe work on gas appliances while unregistered.
In November 2014 the gas fitter was handed a Prohibition Notice by the
A car retailer based in the South East of England has been fined after a car bodywork sprayer developed occupational asthma.
West Hampshire Magistrates' Court heard that in October 2011 and...
