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Features Housing Regeneration

‘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 ...

Features Pollution Regeneration Waste Waste and Recycling Water

We must collaborate to ensure the environment doesn’t become an afterthought

Cutbacks across local government have put environmental services under pressure when they are needed most. ...

Features Recycling Waste Waste and Recycling

Deposit schemes aren’t the answer – we need a joined up response to recycling and litter

The article Has Scotland got the bottle for deposit return schemes? cherry-picks data in an ...

Features Pollution Regeneration

Mitigating the impact of Shanghai’s rapid growth

It’s one of the world’s largest cities and can amaze and appal in equal measure. ...

Features Pollution Transport Transport & Highways

Will Heathrow plans be grounded by air pollution?

Economic arguments have long been at the forefront of the debate over airport expansion in ...

Energy Features Housing Regeneration

The retrofitting conundrum

Making our existing housing stock more energy efficient through retrofitting will be vital to reducing ...

Energy Features Housing Regeneration

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 ...

Features Waste Waste and Recycling

Has Scotland got the bottle for deposit return schemes?

Deposit return systems – where people purchasing a drink pay a small deposit and get ...

Features Housing Regeneration

‘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 ...

Housing Regeneration

Councils ‘eroding’ green belt under government pressure, says campaign

There are over a quarter of a million houses planned to be built on the ...