Stop sidestepping the issue – we must adapt to climate change now
Climate change is real and the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment 2017 evidence report provides the solid evidence needed to refute
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Housing
Councils must treat planning applications for green belt ‘consistently’
Councils must apply planning rules properly when considering applications for building on the green belt, the Local Government Ombudsman has
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Interview: Mark Woodward, Green Directions/Community Works
Mark Woodward – environmentalist, businessman, teacher, Ofsted inspector, musician – has never been slave to a masterplan. Safe speeds, reassuringly
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Turning buildings into energy hubs will speed up decarbonisation
While buildings are a major contributor to carbon output, this means they can also play a key role in reducing
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Contaminated land – one to watch
Stephen Tromans QC and Victoria Hutton provide an overview of a Part 2A Inquiry concerning a remediation notice served by
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Councils should make it ‘simpler’ to establish cohousing communities, report says
Local government should make more land available cheaply for groups who want to set up cohousing communities, a report launched
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Creating a new generation of young green leaders
The benefits that high quality, accessible green infrastructure brings to local communities have been well proven. Green spaces provide neighbourhoods
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Better targeted measures needed to tackle urban sprawl in Europe
The report, Urban sprawl in Europe, reviews the low-density and scattered expansion of many cities that often comes as a
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No room for local views on green belt in the push to build new homes
David Cameron has made several statements regarding his wish to preserve the UK’s Green Belt including ‘I am a countryman’
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‘Pink planning’ offers a new way to accelerate housing growth
Britain’s stymied housing sector is finally showing signs of life. After years of paralysis, there are encouraging indicators of a
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Councils deny planning system is a barrier to housebuilding
Local authority leaders have warned there is no evidence that unnecessary delays in the planning process are holding up development.
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The retrofitting conundrum
Making our existing housing stock more energy efficient through retrofitting will be vital to reducing carbon emissions and tackling fuel
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Sustainable buildings aren’t simply about being seen to be green
Sustainability should be integral to the design of public sector developments. But that doesn’t mean adding green technology for the
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‘Unrealistic’ housing targets are ramping up the pressure on green belt
If green belt should only be developed in exceptional circumstances, why has England seen a 25% rise in planned housing
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Councils ‘eroding’ green belt under government pressure, says campaign
There are over a quarter of a million houses planned to be built on the green belt despite the government’s
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