The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has launched a public consultation on the air quality plan for London, in response to a judicial review brought by environmental law organisation ClientEarth.
Water customers in England will no longer have to worry about bills to repair blocked or damaged sewers, following changes that have come into force on the 1st October 2011.
A major supermarket chain had an appeal refused largely on air quality grounds recently. The appeal shows the increasing importance placed on air quality issues as the UK struggles to meet European air quality limit values and local authorities begin to take the matter more seriously.
A man who annoyed his neighbours with loud amplified music has been prosecuted at Barking Magistrates’ Court.
The Planning Inspectorate has halted Sainsbury’s plans to expand a supermarket in Sheffield after dismissing the firm’s air quality impact assessment. It is the first major retail development to be refused for this reason.
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