Environmental Protection: Environmental Offences Guideline Consultation
New proposals for how environmental offenders like fly-tippers should be sentenced have been launched today by the Sentencing Council.
Health & Safety: One million self-employed to be exempt from H&S law
The Government has announced plans to begin a major cut back of health and safety red tape as early as January 2012. It will begin an immediate consultation on the abolition of large numbers of health and safety regulations and intents to have removed the first rules from the statute book within a few months.
Housing: Newham launches consultation to license all private landlords
Newham could become the first borough in the country to license all private landlords. The east London council has just started a 10-week consultation. Councillors will then consider giving it the green light.
Housing: New powers proposed to deal with ‘neighbours from hell’
Housing Minister Grant Shapps has today announced plans to speed up the process for evicting persistent ‘neighbours from hell’ from their homes when all other efforts to curb their anti-social behaviour have failed.
Environmental Protection: Hazardous Waste Consultation
Defra’s draft National Policy Statement on the provision of major new infrastructure for Hazardous Waste has been published today for consultation. Treatment of hazardous waste is essential for public health and a clean environment. Only relatively small amounts of...Follow Us
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