birds

Appeal: Nitrate neutrality concerns scupper Isle of Wight barn conversion

23.07.2021

Matt Moody

birds | Environmental | isolated | nitrate neutrality | special protection area | UK

Plans to convert a redundant agricultural building on the Isle of Wight have been rejected by an inspector, who found no suitable mechanism to ensure that the proposal would not harm the nitrate neutrality...
Appeal: National park airstrip found harmful to protected birds

30.04.2021

Matt Moody

Article 4 | aviation | birds | Environmental | National Park | Protected species | tranquility | Yorkshire

An application to lift an article 4 direction and allow the private weekly use of an airstrip in the North York Moors has been rejected for a fourth time, after an inspector took a precautionary approach to...
Northern Ireland round-up: Go-ahead for Lisburn urban village and mixed-use scheme; 724-bed student scheme proposed near Belfast’s Cathedral Quarter

16.04.2021

Roger Milne

birds | Coronavirus | cycling | Housing | Lisburn | Northern Ireland

A round-up of planning news in Northern Ireland: 10 April-16 April, 2021
Ireland round-up: County Clare power plant site set to become a green hub; Co-living project approved for Dublin shopping centre

16.04.2021

Roger Milne

birds | Darragh O’Brien | Ireland | Office for Planning Regulator | Plan Making - Master Planning | Water & Marine

A round-up of planning news in Ireland: 10 April-16 April, 2021
Appeal: Hotel extension could disrupt wintering seabirds

29.05.2020

Matt Moody

birds | Environmental | hotel | Leisure & Tourism | North East | special protection area

An inspector has blocked a Sunderland hotel's plan to convert its multi-storey car park into more rooms, citing potential harm to various designated nature conservation sites nearby.
Appeal: Hillside pigeon loft 'caused neighbours distress'

31.01.2020

Matt Moody

birds | Cymru | Health | living conditions | odour | Rural

An inspector has refused retrospective permission for a second pigeon loft behind a terrace of homes in the Rhondda Valley, ruling that odour, noise and vermin concerns had 'clearly disturbed' nearby...
Enforcement: Action against national park falconry pens superseded

15.10.2019

Matt Moody

animal breeding | birds | Leisure & Tourism | National Park | Rural | South West

An inspector has granted permission for two ‘hack pens’ at a falconry breeding business in the New Forest that predates the area’s national park designation, superseding the council’s enforcement notice....
Bird net tweet storm underlines PR value of wildlife care

01.05.2019

Dr David W Smith

birds | Development Management & Enforcement | England | Environmental | netting | wildlife

Developers should explore all ofther options for working alongisde wildlife before resorting to the controversial practice of netting, says Dr David Smith
'Blue belt' extended as two coastline areas get special marine protection

04.12.2017

Huw Morris

birds | Cornwall | Environmental | irish sea | marine environment | UK | Water & Marine

The UK’s 'blue belt' of marine conservation is to be expanded with two coastline areas granted special protection, covering 150,000 rare seabirds.