Built Environment

Built Environment Housing

How to…boost housing and the environment at the same time.

A new regeneration project in Surrey aims to transform a post-war housing estate with more homes, open spaces and traffic-free streets.

Thameswey Developments have put forward plans on behalf of Woking Borough Council to double the number of homes on the Sheerwater estate, from 570 to around 1,200 – nearly half of which, the developers claim, will be affordable.

$Government fracking announcement ‘reads like a wish list from the fracking companies themselves’$

Built Environment Communities

Government fracking announcement ‘reads like a wish list from the fracking companies themselves’

Built Environment

Parks boost health and wellbeing by £34 billion

Built Environment Communities Housing

New research links LED lighting to cancer

Built Environment Housing

Could a soil-based construction material solve the world’s housing crisis?

Built Environment Communities

A co-operative approach to renewable energy

Built Environment Communities

Leadership Spotlight: an interview with Dale Vince, Chairman of Forest Green Rovers and owner of Ecotricity

Built Environment Local Government

Local authorities paying £863m per year to ‘big six’ energy companies

Built Environment Local Government

85% of local authorities now own solar panels, report reveals

The Solar Trade Association has produced a report which reveals how many local authorities are utilising solar technology.

They analysed data from FOI requests in 2017 to all local authorities, to which 330 responded, together with 2018 deployment data from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.