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Coalfield renewal scoops RTPI cup

8 February 2008

Top prize in the RTPI Planning Awards 2007 has gone to a ground-breaking coalfield community renaissance project in Nottinghamshire.

Buffer zones proposed to protect Welsh households

8 February 2008

Greater protection for people living near opencast mining sites in Wales should be provided via 500-metre buffer zones between extraction sites and housing, the Welsh Assembly Government has proposed.

Porous paving materials encouraged by water strategy

8 February 2008

Planning permission will not be required for paving front gardens as long as porous materials are used, DEFRA has announced.

Radar test on wind effects

8 February 2008

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is testing a hi-tech radar that is intended to mitigate the effects of wind turbines on radar systems.

Castle swaps over to solar

8 February 2008

The National Trust switched on the first solar panels installed on a grade I listed building this week.

Legislative discrepancies over climate run risk of direct action

By Huw Morris, editor

8 February 2008

Marlon Brando, playing a civil rights lawyer in the thriller A Dry White Season, observed that justice and law are often distant cousins but are not even on speaking terms in South Africa.

Consultancies establish waste management partnership deal

8 February 2008

Scott Wilson has agreed a partnership with waste consultancy Juniper in the growing waste management and biomass renewables sector.

Water policy to be published

8 February 2008

A strategy outlining the government's policy on water was set to be published as Planning went to press this week.

Gap feared in climate duty

8 February 2008

Climate issues are falling through a gap between the Planning and Climate Change Bills, Friends of the Earth (FoE) warned this week.

Sherwood community renewal scoops cup

8 February 2008

Colliery regeneration scheme wins top RTPI prize