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| Backbench MPs have warned the government against dropping essential environmental regulations in its pursuit of economic growth. |
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| Local authorities should be given a statutory duty to draw up and implement low-carbon plans as part of the fight against climate change, government advisers have told ministers. |
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| Energy company RWE Npower Renewables has submitted a planning application for the construction of seven new turbines - and the removal of 20 existing turbines - on a wind farm in South Wales. |
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| An energy company has taken its fight to build four wind turbines near the Norfolk Broads National Park to the High Court, claiming national climate change targets should trump local landscape policies. |
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| Labour's shadow Welsh secretary Peter Hain has resigned to focus on a campaign to promote a barrage across the Severn estuary. |
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| Planning applications and associated changes to rights of way could be considered in tandem under consultative proposals released yesterday. |
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| Northern Ireland environment minister Alex Attwood has published a supplementary planning guidance document for rural building projects. |
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| Welsh environment minister John Griffiths has unveiled a new £500,000 funding pot and extra government assistance to help local people and councils improve urban areas. |
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| The RTPI president says he is satisfied that the institute was effective in making changes to the NPPF, and the focus is now on supporting councils in straitened times. |
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| Guests from across the planning world last week attended a party at Planning's London offices to celebrate four decades of the magazine, which was first published in 1972. |
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| OPINION |
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| The Planning for Climate Change guidance for councils published by the Town and Country Planning Association on behalf of the Planning & Climate Change Coalition (PCCC) poses predictable questions about the status of unofficial interpretations of gov... |
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| As the dust settles on the NPPF controversy, and planners around the country are getting to grips with the detail of the NPPF, what does it mean for nature? |
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