climate emergency

Appeal: No conflict between carbon-emitting facility and climate declaration

20.05.2021

Matt Moody

AONB | carbon emissions | carbon neutral | climate change | climate emergency | electricity | Environmental | gas power | Infrastructure - Transport | South West

A 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...
Appeals round-up: Permanent residential use of Essex holiday park denied; Age no reason to deny residents pleasant outdoor space

07.05.2021

Matt Moody

battlefield | Brexit | climate emergency | Demographics & Population Growth | Environmental | gypsy travellers | Heritage | Housing | Infrastructure - Energy | Policy & Politics | recovered appeal | retirement | Solar park | UK | Welsh language

A round-up of planning appeals: 1 May-7 May, 2021
Appeal: Jenrick rejects calls for more stringent emissions conditions

07.05.2021

Matt Moody

carbon emissions | climate change | climate emergency | Environmental | Housing | recovered appeal | South East | urban extension | zero carbon

The 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...
Appeal: ‘Very special circumstances’ justify green belt gas plant

01.04.2021

Matt Moody

climate emergency | Environmental | gas power plant | Green Belt | Infrastructure - Energy | renewable energy | Rural | South West | very special circumstances

Plans 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...
‘Historic disregard’ of nature a ‘catastrophic mistake’, finds report

24.06.2020

Laura Edgar

Climate Change | climate crisis | climate emergency | Environmental | environmental breakdown | International | IPPR | nature crisis | Policy & Politics | UK

Policymakers in the UK and around the world need to ‘wake up’ to the ‘accelerating process of environmental breakdown’, according to think tank IPPR.
News in brief: Green building approved in London; Whitehaven regeneration plans set out

27.05.2020

Laura Edgar

Beeching cuts | biodiversity | Cambridgeshire | City of London Corporation | climate emergency | Future High Streets Fund | Housing | North West Leicestershire District Council | Regeneration | UK

A round-up of planning news: Wednesday 27 May, 2020
Appeal: Paragraph 79 nitrate-filtering eco-home rejected

06.02.2020

Matt Moody

climate emergency | Design | East of England | eco-home | Environmental | green technology | innovation | nitrate neutrality | paragraph 79 | Rural

An 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...
News report: How local authorities are facing up to the climate crisis

17.09.2019

Huw Morris

Climate Change | climate emergency | Liverpool | UK

Local authority declarations of climate emergencies have become an epidemic in 2019. Huw Morris investigates