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08.10.2021Enforcement action against two air source heat pumps installed at a property in Leeds has been quashed by an inspector, who found that the visual impact of the pumps could be made acceptable by painting them...
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08.10.2021Climate Change | climate change | climate emergency | Environmental | fossil fuel | Infrastructure - Energy | power | reserve energy | South EastAn inspector has rejected plans for a ‘flexible energy facility’ at a business park in Sussex, ruling that the facility’s reliance on fossil fuels was not compatible with the council’s declaration of a...
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20.05.2021AONB | carbon emissions | carbon neutral | climate change | climate emergency | electricity | Environmental | gas power | Infrastructure - Transport | South WestA gas-powered energy generator providing back-up electricity during peak demand periods would not be contrary to the council's declaration of a climate emergency despite producing carbon emissions, an...
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07.05.2021battlefield | Brexit | climate emergency | Demographics & Population Growth | Environmental | gypsy travellers | Heritage | Housing | Infrastructure - Energy | Policy & Politics | recovered appeal | retirement | Solar park | UK | Welsh languageA round-up of planning appeals: 1 May-7 May, 2021
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07.05.2021carbon emissions | climate change | climate emergency | Environmental | Housing | recovered appeal | South East | urban extension | zero carbonThe housing secretary has rejected Swale Borough Council’s attempts to impose stringent carbon reduction conditions on plans for 675 homes at Sittingbourne, Kent, ruling that the conditions were not...
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01.04.2021climate emergency | Environmental | gas power plant | Green Belt | Infrastructure - Energy | renewable energy | Rural | South West | very special circumstancesPlans for a gas power plant in the Gloucestershire green belt that would ‘supply electricity at short notice during periods of high demand’ can go ahead, after an inspector decided that the scheme would...
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24.06.2020Climate Change | climate crisis | climate emergency | Environmental | environmental breakdown | International | IPPR | nature crisis | Policy & Politics | UKPolicymakers in the UK and around the world need to ‘wake up’ to the ‘accelerating process of environmental breakdown’, according to think tank IPPR.
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27.05.2020Beeching cuts | biodiversity | Cambridgeshire | City of London Corporation | climate emergency | Future High Streets Fund | Housing | North West Leicestershire District Council | Regeneration | UKA round-up of planning news: Wednesday 27 May, 2020
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06.02.2020climate emergency | Design | East of England | eco-home | Environmental | green technology | innovation | nitrate neutrality | paragraph 79 | RuralAn inspector has rejected plans for an eco-home in Norfolk that would include a filtration system to remove agricultural chemicals from groundwater, ruling that the design’s technological innovations did not...
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17.09.2019Local authority declarations of climate emergencies have become an epidemic in 2019. Huw Morris investigates
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