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PAUL MCNAMARA HAS NEVER GIVEN SO MANY speeches on green issues in his life. As head of research for Prudential Property Investment Management (PruPIM) and chairman of the Investment Property [...]

Cabe design panel says broadcast centre would blight 2012 legacy Ruth Bloomfield The design review panel tasked with overseeing the London 2012 Olympics has warned that the Olympic Park could [...]

The government urgently needs to make sustainable urban drainage systems (Suds) compulsory in all new developments, the Royal Town Planning Institute said this week. A report by the House of [...]

On March 13, the UK government published its blueprint for tackling climate change. The draft Climate Change Bill, the first of its kind in any country, sets out a framework [...]

Cabe has given broad support to the Olympic Delivery Authority's planning application for its Olympic Games masterplan. The design watchdog called the plan a 'robust basis for future development' and [...]

Ellen Bennett The Greater London Authority has launched an inquiry into the loss of street trees in London amid growing concern that they will die out, leaving the capital's public [...]

Trade welcomes PM's belief that it is impractical to ask travellers to stop flying because of environmental concerns. Robin Searle reports The Prime minister has emerged as a welcome ally [...]

All new homes will be zero carbon by 2016, communities secretary Ruth Kelly confirmed this week as she unveiled a range of tough new measures including the six-star Code for [...]

The government could bring in a controversial planning gain supplement (PGS) as early as 2009, according to Gordon Brown's pre-budget report on Wednesday. Consultation papers relating to specific policy areas [...]

While no tree surgery arisings end up in landfill, local authorities in Greater Manchester and Merseyside spend almost #170 000 a year on disposal. This was one of the key [...]

Tree cover in the Yorkshire Dales National Park amounts to four per cent of the total area - the lowest of any National Park, according to Geoff Garrett, Trees and [...]

Views are being sought on the proposed transfer of ownership of the Cairngorm Estate from Highlands & Islands Enterprise to Forestry Commission Scotland. The Cairngorm Estate is owned by Highlands [...]

GARY NOAKES Travel companies will soon feature carbon offsetting in their annual reports as a matter of course, leading observers predict. Pressure from the green lobby will spur more firms [...]

Government pressure will force the aviation industry to take its environmental impact more seriously over the next few years, Manchester Airports Group has warned. MAG chief executive Geoff Muirhead said [...]

A crackdown on pollution will put an end to cheap no-frills flights within 10 years, a leading industry figure claims. Former Tui UK managing director Chris Mottershead, now chief executive [...]

'The landscape of Skye has been transformed by human use over the centuries into what it is today. The Kinloch Hills restoration project will attempt to recreate the past landscape [...]

Nick Dutton, Sales and Marketing Director of Synseal Extrusions Ltd looks at how the industry is coping with Part L almost 2 years after implementation. Document L was a by [...]

Forestry Commission DG David Bills hit back at claims from fountains that the way it operated helps to 'skew' the UK timber market. Barry Gamble, chairman of forest management specialist [...]

Latest step in the Forest of Marston Vale's (FoMV) march forward was the #450,000* it received last spring to enable it to acquire 70- hectare Rectory Farm at Cranfield, Bedfordshire [...]

`While much attention has quite rightly been placed on the disappearing Amazon rainforest, here in our own district we are in danger of failing to manage and replace our valuable [...]

Britain's woodlands have increased in size by a quarter since the 1980 census, the Forestry Commission reports in its latest record of tree cover. They now represent 11.6% of the [...]

'Newlands' is an ambitious new #23m scheme billed as 'land regeneration for the 21st Century' which is set to economically and socially rejuvenate 435 hectares of derelict land across England's [...]

`Our policy-makers have a number of choices: either to make more funding available for the grant schemes - in recognition of the wider benefits forestry bestows upon society - or [...]

`Five million is a significant milestone towards our eventual target of 30m trees to be planted over the entire National Forest (NF) area'. With this message, NF Company chairman Viv [...]

25,000 tonnes of waste plastic is produced by farms every year, according to a DEFRA report. It highlights the problem of recycling farm waste due to high levels of contamination, [...]

Talking Arable columnist Ambrose Fowler admitted to knowing little of the Voluntary Initiative's Crop Protection Management Plans. But here, undaunted, he provides us with an insight as to what they're [...]

The Forestry Commission has announced that there will be no substantial changes to the range of grants provided through the Woodland Grant Scheme (WGS) in England until 2005. As a [...]

`I could take issue with most of the points raised by David Ogg in last month's edition' (p16), writes director general David Bills, in defence of the Forestry Commission. `However, [...]

FARMERS who use pesticides have been warned they will face a #150m pesticides tax unless they start signing up to the voluntary scheme set up as an alternative. NFU officials [...]

WELSH MPs are being urged to back a parliamentary bid to slash road tax on biofuels aimed at kick-starting a major new alternative energy market for farmers struggling to overcome [...]

Environment minister Michael Meacher has pledged to look into setting up a new working group, including the Timber Trade Federation, to advise on government timber procurement policy. Mr Meacher made [...]

THE Government has concluded that the Voluntary Agreement is the most effective way of reducing the environmental impact of pesticides, in its response to the Environment Audit Committee report. The [...]

With more and more of Britain's countryside falling beneath concrete and tarmac, road-enclosed areas of natural vegetation - including verges and roundabouts - are becoming significant in maintaining biodiversity with [...]

2003 will be the last year in which we will be able to use permethrin for weevil control. It will no longer be possible to purchase Permit or Permesect after [...]

THE whole timescale of the Government's proposed White Paper on air travel in the UK has been thrown into disarray - with all the accompanying heartache for the thousands of [...]

Whether or not you agree with the principle of Nitrate Vulnerable Zones, they are here to stay and the area covered by them has dramatically increased this year. The rules [...]

The sea swept over 84ha of prime arable land near Tiptree in Essex on November 4, claiming back land drained 300 years ago. Deliberate breaches made by the Environment Agency [...]

The highest success rate since starting its competitive tender scheme eight years ago is reported by the National Forest Company. A `highly impressive' 383 hectares of land is set to [...]

Starlings and house sparrows have been added to the `red list' of birds of the highest conservation concern, according to The Population Status of Birds in the UK, published by [...]

GREENBELT planning regulations are failing the countryside and the rural areas they are supposed to protect, the CLA in the East Midlands has claimed. For too long, greenbelt policy has [...]

ARRANGEMENTS for a series of meetings to explain the impending integrated pollution prevention and control (IPPC) legislation to pig producers have been sharply attacked by former National Pig Association (NPA) [...]

New land use change statistics show the amount of rural land being swallowed up by urban uses was declining even before the government embarked on its current drive to stem [...]

The government's Sustainable Development Strategy advocates slashing energy consumption in commercial buildings Developers are to be encouraged to adopt more energy-efficient designs under the government's new Sustainable Development Strategy. The [...]

Architects have been blasted by top environmentalists for their lack of rigour in specifying materials. The comments come in the wake of Greenpeace allegations that illegally logged rainforest wood from [...]

GOVERNMENT proposals for a new tax on energy with the aim of reducing CO2 emission could seriously threaten the competitiveness of the plastic film industry. The warning comes from PIFA, [...]

AT THE G8 SUMMIT EARLIER THIS MONTH, the prime minister and the leaders of the world's leading industrial economies struggled to reach agreement on measures to tackle global warming. Despite [...]

THE BRITISH COUNCIL FOR OFFICES HAS ADDED ITS weight to the government's drive for more environmentally friendly developments by publishing a guide to green building this month. The BCO Green [...]

John Gummer, Secretary of State for the Environment, hopes to lay the UK packaging waste regulations before Parliament in early December. He told the Packaging Week/Incpen conference in London that [...]

John Gummer's plan to tackle Britain's packaging waste mountain has come under renewed attack. Friends of the Earth condemns the proposed Producer Responsibility regulations - due to come into force [...]

Political correctness has led to superfluous recovery, says Roland McKinney of Fibre Research Consultants Recycling has come of age - the age of political correctness. Raw material no longer waste-paper [...]