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Transport Transport & Highways

Better integration of land use impacts needed across EU policies

Land is a valuable and limited resource. The environmental impact of land used for building ...

Features

Making the most of sustainability reports

Sustainability reporting provides the chance for local authorities to demonstrate the added value they bring ...

Pollution

More action required to protect soil in the city

Industrial activity, pollution and exploitation are degrading the quality of soils located in and around ...

Transport Transport & Highways

Half of Londoners back city centre diesel ban, poll says

Over half of Londoners want diesel vehicles banned from central London in order to tackle ...

Transport Transport & Highways

Town halls using parking charges to raise cash

Local authorities are collecting increasing amounts of revenue from parking charges, despite a court ruling ...

Transport Transport & Highways

Criticism as cars, vans and lorries dominate transport statistics

Road use statistics show a ‘countrywide overdependence on cars’ that risks marginalising people who don’t ...

Transport Transport & Highways

Government urged to intervene over local plan delays

MPs have called on the government to clarify how it will tackle ‘dawdling’ local authorities ...

Jobs Transport Transport & Highways

Whitehall’s policies should focus on housing location, planners argue

The government must monitor the impact national planning policy has on housing growth patterns, a ...

Energy Transport Transport & Highways

NERC commissions ambitious multi-centre research programmes

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has commissioned five highly ambitious research programmes, worth £34m, ...

Energy

Renewables increasingly curbing reliance on fossil fuels

The use of fossil fuels across the European Union continues to decline due in part ...