nature

Business welcomes certainty over HS2 but environmentalists remain concerned

12.02.2020

Laura Edgar

ancient woodland | Business & Enterprise | England | Environmental | Euston | HS2 | Infrastructure - Transport | midlands connect | nature | northern powerhouse rail | RTPI | the wildlife trusts | UK

Business leaders are breathing ‘a sigh of relief’ now the government has given the HS2 rail project the go-ahead, but environmental campaigners are perturbed about the damage the line will cause to nature.
Green space influences mental wellbeing

22.08.2019

Laura Edgar

England | Environmental | green space | Health | Mental health | nature | nature reserve | parks

Research has suggested that living within 300m of urban green space is associated with greater happiness, a sense of worth and life satisfaction.
Gove outlines updates to environment bill

24.07.2019

Laura Edgar

25 year environment plan | air quality | conservation covenants | England | Environment Bill | Environmental | michael gove | nature | Waste & Recycling

The government’s ambitions for the forthcoming environment bill have been set out and updated in a policy statement.
Why the revised NPPF can support the fight to protect ancient habitats

24.10.2018

Victoria Bankes Price

Ancient habitats | England | Environmental | Heritage | nature | NPPF | Woodland

The revised NPPF offers greater protection to England's ancient woodlands. But it remains to be seen whether local authorities interpret the policy in a way that will give real protection to threatened...
News report: Can we design well-being into modern cities?

02.10.2018

Catherine Early

damages | deficit | design | Economic Growth | Environmental | Health | health | landscape | nature | Plan Making - Master Planning | speaking | UK | wellbeing

After attending the Valuing Landscape Conference 2018: Connecting People, Places and Nature, Catherine Early reports on how planners and landscape designers can ensure that tomorrow’s...
How modern cities are killing our ancient bodies – and what planners can do about it

31.01.2018

Gustav Milne

City building | Civilisation | Environmental | Genetics | Gustave Milne | Health | Human biology | Infrastructure - Green | nature | UK | urbanisation

Modern cities are killing our Palaeolithic bodies, argues Gustav Milne. Although we can’t change our biology, we can change our living environments
Guidelines for people and wildlife published

15.01.2018

Laura Edgar

England | Environmental | Housing | nature | the wildlife trusts

The Wildlife Trusts has published new guidelines that aim to show how new housing developments can be built in a way that gives people ‘green, inspirational’ homes that help to reverse decades of wildlife and habitat decline.
Appeals round-up: 379 homes approved in Ireland despite campaign; ‘Sharing with neighbours’ does not justify South Downs nature lookout

27.03.2017

AONB | cars | Climate Change | Environmental | Housing | Infrastructure - Transport | nature | Plan Making - Local & Neighbourhood | solar farm | UK

A round-up of appeal decisions: 18th-24th March 2017
‘Sharing with neighbours’ does not justify South Downs nature lookout

20.03.2017

Environmental | Leisure & Tourism | nature | Rural | South West

Plans to build a small timber outbuilding for observing wildlife have been refused despite the appellant’s offer to ‘share with the neighbours’, after an inspector found no mechanism to...