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Weekly mandatory food waste collections

Weekly mandatory food waste collections

What are the new rules on food waste collections and why are councils set to miss the March deadline? Ashfords’ energy and resource management team explain.

March 20, 2026

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NPPF should provide further clarity regarding national environmental targets and objectives relevant to local authorities, says watchdog

March 19, 2026

Environment Agency to be given “police-like” powers to stop illegal fly-tipping

March 18, 2026

Environmental watchdog and council secure injunction to protect Site of Special Scientific Interest in Wales

March 17, 2026

Government presses ahead with plan to replace Environmental Impact Assessments

Mar 16, 2026

High Court orders suspended quashing of MMO dredging licence for Teesport harbour authority

Mar 16, 2026

Government rejects several select committee recommendations on housebuilding and nature

Mar 13, 2026

LGA calls for “urgent review” of fly-tipping sentencing guidelines, claiming court fines “undercut council penalties”

Mar 06, 2026

Revised guidance on dealing with littering put on statutory footing

Mar 03, 2026

Bill to set up new body holding public authorities in Wales to account on environmental law passes Senedd

Feb 27, 2026

Defra issues guidance for councils for first time on how to seize and crush vehicles used for fly-tipping

Feb 25, 2026

High Court to hear challenge to licensing scheme for releasing gamebirds on or near special protection areas

Feb 25, 2026

Council agrees to quash environmental permit for incineration scheme

Jan 15, 2026

Government falling short on environmental targets while regulator grapple with constraints of regulatory and legislative framework, spending watchdog warns

Jan 09, 2026

High Court rejects latest judicial review challenge over Environment Agency decisions on landfill site

Dec 11, 2025

District warns planning bill could weaken environmental safeguards

Nov 26, 2025

Select committee seeks to challenge “lazy narrative” that nature is a blocker to housing delivery

Nov 20, 2025

High Court to hear judicial review challenge over approval of London Luton Airport expansion

Nov 04, 2025

Low-risk activities to be exempted from environmental permit application process in bid to speed up construction of housing and infrastructure

Oct 28, 2025

London borough designates waste site as contaminated land, following High Court ruling

Oct 27, 2025

Council reverses decision to fine woman £150 for pouring remnants of coffee down drain

Oct 23, 2025

Supreme Court to rule next week on ‘appropriate assessment’ and subsequent approvals

Oct 16, 2025

Campaigners threaten judicial review over decision to expand Gatwick Airport

Oct 16, 2025

Government warned against removing planning duty for national parks and landscapes

Oct 08, 2025

County council rescinds climate change declaration and lays out plans to cancel Net Zero targets

Sep 22, 2025

Judge quashes permission for outdoor adventure centre over failure to publish draft report from Natural Resources Wales

Sep 11, 2025

High Court hands down ruling on appropriate development and harm to Green Belt

Sep 03, 2025

Ministers hit with statutory review threat over data centre approval

Aug 21, 2025

Legal challenge launched over development consent order for carbon capture facility in North West

Aug 21, 2025

Tribunal orders disclosure of information on meetings between minister and private companies over net zero policies in Wales

Aug 21, 2025

District council concedes planning permission for large poultry farm should be quashed

Aug 21, 2025

Government unveils new infrastructure board and single environmental regulator pilot to speed up planning

Aug 20, 2025

Legal challenge launched against nuclear plant water abstraction licence

Aug 13, 2025

LGA broadly supports proposed biodiversity net gain reforms

Aug 11, 2025

Environmental watchdog urges caution over changes to biodiversity net gain rules

Aug 08, 2025

Test Valley becomes third Hampshire council to recognise 'rights of rivers'

Aug 05, 2025

Countryside charity loses legal challenge against planning permission for 165 homes at site in Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

Jul 17, 2025

London borough appeared “very confused” as to correct approach on designating illegal landfill as “contaminated land”, High Court finds

Jun 20, 2025

Campaigners pursue another legal challenge over Sizewell C as Chancellor gives project green light

Jun 11, 2025

High Court rejects judicial review over permission for onshore salmon farm

Jun 09, 2025

London borough proposes using Public Spaces Protection Order to tackle idling cars

Jun 05, 2025

Council warns developers and landowners over felling trees for development and misunderstandings about biodiversity net gain

Jun 02, 2025

Welsh Government to set up oversight body to ensure compliance by public authorities with environmental law

Jun 02, 2025

Government eyes introduction of biodiversity net gain for nationally significant infrastructure projects from May 2026

Jun 02, 2025

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Weekly mandatory food waste collections

What are the new rules on food waste collections and why are councils set to miss the March deadline? Ashfords’ energy and resource management team explain.

Weekly mandatory food waste collections

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Development, flood risk and planning judgment

Development, flood risk and planning judgment

February 18, 2026

Rohini Vekaria considers what the High Court decision in Gladman and recent NPPF/PPG amendments mean in practice.

A National Security Assessment: Biodiversity Loss and Ecosystem Collapse – Implications for Infrastructure and Energy

A National Security Assessment: Biodiversity Loss and Ecosystem Collapse – Implications for Infrastructure and Energy

February 18, 2026

Bridget Newman talks readers through the recent National Security Assessment on Global Biodiversity Loss, Ecosystem Collapse and National Security, explaining what it means for infrastructure, energy and long-term investment planning.

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 10: Access to nature

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 10: Access to nature

February 02, 2026

Margherita Cornaglia examines the final goal of the Government's Enviromental Improvement Plan 2025.

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 9: Biosecurity

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 9: Biosecurity

January 29, 2026

Charles Bishop examines the Government's plans for biosecurity under Goal 9 of the Government's EIP 2025.

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 8: Reducing environmental hazards

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 8: Reducing environmental hazards

Jan 28, 2026

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 7: Climate change

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 7: Climate change

Jan 27, 2026

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 6: Resources

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 6: Resources

Jan 23, 2026

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 5: Waste

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 5: Waste

Jan 22, 2026

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 4: Chemicals, Pesticides and the Law of Risk Management

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 4: Chemicals, Pesticides and the Law of Risk Management

Jan 21, 2026

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 3: Clean and Plentiful Water

Jan 16, 2026

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 2: Air

Jan 15, 2026

The EIP: 10 Days of the 10 Goals - Goal 1: Restored Nature

Jan 14, 2026

Airport expansion, EIAs and emissions

Dec 10, 2025

Calculation of Biodiversity Net Gain

Dec 09, 2025

Application of the Habitats Regulations at the reserved matters and discharge of conditions stage

Oct 23, 2025

Climate legal risk and property: what local authorities need to know

Oct 09, 2025

Environmental enforcement powers: Walker v Chelmsford City Council [2020] EWHC 635 revisited

Sep 18, 2025

Nationally significant infrastructure projects, the EIA regime and propriety in decision-making

Sep 11, 2025

Aarhus cost protection in traffic order challenges

Sep 11, 2025

The tale of the snail and the much-delayed rail

Sep 04, 2025

A New Chapter for UK Sustainability Reporting: Government Consultations Open

Aug 27, 2025

The landfill tax and local authorities

Aug 13, 2025

Ofgem’s energy system cost allocation and recovery review – Proposed reforms and impact assessment

Aug 07, 2025

The power of local authorities to set local energy efficiency standards

Aug 01, 2025

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