09 Feb 2021

The Guardian ‘A local authority has admitted it should not have granted planning permission for a vast broiler unit in the “poultry capital of Wales” after campaigners crowdfunded a judicial review. Powys county council opposed the legal challenge, brought by activists from Sustainable Food Knighton (SFK). Knighton is a small market town near the border with England.  […]

09 Feb 2021

Scottish Government has identified the need to improve how we manage surface water in Scotland. The Programme for Government: Protecting Scotland’s Future – The Government’s Programme for Scotland 2019-20 contains commitments to work together to increase Scotland’s use of blue-green infrastructure for drainage and flood management and to review our approach to blue-green cities and […]

09 Feb 2021

From EORI numbers, to manually entering 149 different lines of data that was not previously required, export health certificates, a ‘statement of value’ and an “export pack” which includes 22 invoices to show at the checkpoint, the paperwork for the one truck load of fish described in this article came to 71 pages. Click here […]

09 Feb 2021

The English Coast is a treasured landscape, visited and enjoyed by so many of us, providing a sanctuary and sustaining our health and well-being. But coasts are facing serious challenges: Coastal communities are on the frontline of climate change with storms and sea level rise; Coastal communities often suffer from high levels of social deprivation; […]