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UK Planning Bill receives Royal Assent Plus Environment and Transport Bills Moved On

December 1st, 2008 by waster

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Michael Donnelly, PlanningResource, 27 November 2008

The Planning Bill has completed the legislative process after receiving Royal Assent last night.
The government says the Planning Act 2008 will enable decisions on major infrastructure projects in areas such [...]

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Tags: approval, Bill, carbon, climate, Commission, energy infrastructure, environment, generation, government, Hazel Blears, infrastructure, infrastructure planning, infrastructure projects, legislation, national infrastructure, national policy statements, planning decisions, Planning Resource, power, practice, rail transport, transport water, UK, wind

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DEFRA UK Publishes New Waste Design Guide

November 10th, 2008 by waster

A new Waste Design Guide titled; “Designing Waste Facilities, a key guide to modern design in waste”, has been produced by Enviros Consulting for Defra, in partnership with the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). This new document is expected to become a key reference document for waste professionals in the UK [...]

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Tags: climate change, combined heat and power, Defra, design principles, design resource, environment, guidance, heat, Municipal, power, resource efficiency, sustainable design, UK, waste, waste management, waste management professionals

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Time to Send in Your Abstracts for the Next Sardinia Conference

October 15th, 2008 by waster

Call for Abstracts for the Twelfth International Waste Management and Landfill Symposium, 5 - 9 October 2009, S. Margherita di Pula (Cagliari), Sardinia, Italy
The organisers of the top Waste and resource management conference are once again seeking papers from experts in their fields. To write a good quality paper and present it at the conference [...]

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391,000 Tonnes/yr of Landfill Waste Diverted in DEFRA PFI Deal

October 3rd, 2008 by waster

£181.6m for project to save 391,000 tonnes of landfill waste
Waste facilities in Leicestershire and the South West will see major improvements thanks to a combined £181.6 million in funding announced by Defra today.
In Leicestershire, the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) project is expecting to divert 98,000 tonnes of Biodegradable Municipal Waste from landfill in 2020. [...]

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