Social housing providers still need more support to tackle planning delay
Jonathan Pearson warns the country’s 'slow and cumbersome' planning process is currently preventing local authorities from adequately responding to housing need.
Councils to be banned from charging for disposal of DIY waste
11/04/2022 The Government has proposed banning local authorities from charging for the disposal of DIY waste from households. |
New proposals to tackle waste crime
21/01/2022 New proposals to tackle fly-tipping and illegal waste exports have been unveiled by the Government today. |
Councils dealing with record amount of fly-tipping
09/12/2021 A charity has called for a review of the licensing scheme for waste carriers after new figures showed fly-tipping has reached an all-time high. |
Council chiefs call for fly-tipping fines to be increased ‘significantly’
09/08/2021 Local authority leaders have called for fly-tipping fines to be increased ‘significantly’ as part of the battle against waste crime. |
Waste crime could be costing the UK nearly a billion pounds a year
23/07/2021 Waste-related crime is costing the country an estimated £1bn a year, a new report has found. |
Councils deal with 20,000 fly-tipping incidents a week
17/05/2021 Council chiefs call for tougher sentences for people caught illegally dumping rubbish as figures show councils deal with 20,000 fly-tipping incidents a week. |
Councils dealing with one million fly-tipping incidents a year
25/02/2021 Councils dealt with nearly one million incidents of fly-tipping in 2019/20 at a cost of £50m, the latest figures have shown. |
Fly-tipping soars by 300% since lockdown
01/05/2020 Fly-tipping in rural areas has increased by 300% since the lockdown, new analysis has discovered. |
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Council chiefs call on mattress companies to ‘recycle own products’
02/03/2020 Local authority leaders are calling for mattress manufacturers to be forced to recycle their own products and offer take-back services to stop them being fly-tipped. |
Shell is helping power the journey towards a circular paving industry with Shell Bitumen LT R, a new product for roads that uses plastics destined for landfill as part of the additives to make the bitumen.
Effective Energy Group is now offering its support to the 40 Local Authorities who have received a share of the £430m to deliver their projects on the ground by surveying properties and installing measures.
Dougie Belmore explains how one of the main interfaces between you and Bacs is about to change.
