The biodiversity challenge
17/07/2019 Alex Robinson explains lessons for councils and their partners from Oxford City Council and Grosvenor’s approach at their Barton Park development. |
Developers may be forced to make 'biodiversity net gain'
03/12/2018 Developers will have to improve habitats for wildlife under new rules proposed by environment secretary Michael Gove. |
Council worker ‘mistakenly’ cuts Attenborough’s wildflower meadow
02/08/2018 A local authority worker has mistakenly mowed a meadow that was being used for David Attenborough's Big Butterfly Count. |
Councils could save thousands with ‘bee-friendly’ policies
18/07/2018 Local authorities can save thousands of pounds by adopting ‘bee-friendly’ grass cutting plans, campaigners say. |
Air pollution destroying roadside flowers warns charity
14/05/2018 Air pollution and bad management have caused the diversity of wild flowers on road verges to fall by 20%, new research has found. |
Local authorities should produce ‘wildlife recovery maps’, campaigners say
02/05/2018 Councils should be required by law to provide maps of local areas that are important for wildlife to help increase the extent and quality of natural habitats, charity says. |
Planning and Ecology
01/05/2018 How can local authorities realize the environmental benefits required by new government legislation? Karen Colebourn reports. |
This issue of Local Government News explores how councils can tackle modern slavery and trafficking in their supply chains, finds out more about Cambridge's first cohousing scheme and the launch of a new project to build a shared service pattern library for local government.
This issue also contains a special focus on children's services and how councils are protecting children following local safeguarding children boards being abolished.
