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01.03.2021Climate Change | DEFRA | England | Environment Agency | Environmental | flooding | Housing | local authority resources | Policy & Politics | public accounts committee
‘Scarce’ local authority resources coupled with ‘low levels’ of private sector investment are preventing the effective management of flooding, especially given the Covid-19 pandemic.
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17.08.2020
Five local authorities are to act as pilot areas to test ways in which the recovery of landscapes and wildlife in England can be driven locally.
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22.06.2020Climate Change | climate crisis | DEFRA | England | england tree strategy | Environmental | forests | trees | Woodland
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is consulting interested parties on how to ‘accelerate’ tree planting and improve the management of existing trees and woodlands – the results of which will inform an England Tree Strategy.
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27.01.2020
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched an online resource to guarantee ‘better’ environmental decision-making by valuing natural capital.
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08.11.2019Business & Enterprise | called-in decision | confidentiality | DEFRA | enforcement | Infrastructure - Energy | mining | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | planning court | Planning Law | UK | Water & Marine | wind turbine
A round-up of legal news: 2 November-8 November 2019
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04.09.2019air quality | biodiversity | DEFRA | England | Environmental | homelessness | Sajid Javid | spending round | UK
Chancellor Sajid Javid has committed £90 million to help decarbonise the UK, improve air quality and increase biodiversity in his one-year Spending Round.
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24.07.2019
The Department for Transport (DfT) has set out how it expects Network Rail to protect and enhance the environment at the rail side.
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07.05.2019
Environmentalists remain concerned about the government's biodiversity net gain proposals, writes Dr Des Purdy.
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25.02.2019
Environment secretary Michael Gove has proposed conservation covenants to legally safeguard England’s wildlife and natural environment.
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20.12.2018
The environment secretary Michael Gove has published draft clauses for the first environmental bill for 20 years.
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