Biodiversity plan must be ‘made to work’
Wednesday, 6 November 2013
BUILDERS could offset the environmental impact of their developments by paying farmers to create rural wildlife habitats.
BUILDERS could offset the environmental impact of their developments by paying farmers to create rural wildlife habitats.
PEOPLE living in market towns have the highest levels of life satisfaction, suggests new statistics.
COUNTRYSIDE campaigners are divided over proposals that would make it easier to convert agricultural buildings into houses.
NEW laws making it harder for thieves to dispose of stolen scrap metal have been welcomed by rural businesses. Rogue traders who buy and sell scrap metal for cash face
CHANGES aimed at making it easier to build housing in rural towns and villages have met a mixed reaction.
A RURAL regeneration conference is to explore the economic, social and environmental opportunities provided by the landscape of the South Pennines.
ONLINE guidance will simplify the planning system and encourage more community involvement, says the government.
Countryside campaigners have called for public paths, common land and village greens to be protected when land is sold.
Government plans for a major road building progamme will do nothing to ease congestion and threaten to devastate the rural environment, say countryside campaigners.
COMMUNITIES will have a greater say over the siting of onshore wind farms, the government has announced.
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BUILDERS could offset the environmental impact of their developments by paying farmers to create rural wildlife habitats.
PEOPLE living in market towns have the highest levels of life satisfaction, suggests new statistics.
COUNTRYSIDE campaigners are divided over proposals that would make it easier to convert agricultural buildings into houses.
NEW laws making it harder for thieves to dispose of stolen scrap metal have been welcomed by rural businesses. Rogue traders who buy and sell scrap metal for cash face
CHANGES aimed at making it easier to build housing in rural towns and villages have met a mixed reaction.
A RURAL regeneration conference is to explore the economic, social and environmental opportunities provided by the landscape of the South Pennines.
ONLINE guidance will simplify the planning system and encourage more community involvement, says the government.
Countryside campaigners have called for public paths, common land and village greens to be protected when land is sold.
Government plans for a major road building progamme will do nothing to ease congestion and threaten to devastate the rural environment, say countryside campaigners.
COMMUNITIES will have a greater say over the siting of onshore wind farms, the government has announced.
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