Environment

One of the biggest challenges in our quest to reduce the carbon footprint of our homes is home heating. A big challenge indeed, when the ...
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Flood Re has helped around 350,000 home owners obtain buildings insurance, but the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) says that helping owners ...
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Environment Secretary, George Eustice, has said that local planning authorities will soon be forced to refer decisions to the Housing Secretary in instances where the ...
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An open letter to government has called for climate change plans to be less complicated and confusing if England is to achieve net zero. The ...
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Historic England has warned that thatched roofs may no longer exist in 20 years time. Thatched buildings need regular maintenance using like-for-like materials. It is ...
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In a new report to government, the Climate Change Committee has said that 570,000 new-build homes constructed since its last assessment in 2017 will need ...
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Turning the UK carbon neutral by 2050 comes at a cost, and with residential property currently one of the biggest producers of greenhouses gases, homeowners ...
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The sale of new gas boilers for home heating is due to be banned from new build properties in 2025, and natural gas boilers  eventually ...
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A stunning property with beautiful sea views can often command a matching stunning price tag, but coastal erosion and rising sea levels mean some properties ...
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A government programme is funding two new hydrogen heated homes in Low Thornley, Gateshead. The houses will be built by April 2021, and will be ...
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After reaching just 10% of the 600,000 homes that the government had targeted for help, the £300 million Green Homes Grant has been withdrawn. The ...
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Most homeowners would agree that finding fungi in the house is far from 'fun'. However, there are some uses of fungi that homeowners might find ...
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The government's advisory Climate Change Committee says that £2 billion needs to be spent every year until 2030 to meet its climate change targets. To ...
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Many of us have been swooning under the heat this summer as we've struggled to work from home. However, as the heatwave becomes a distant ...
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A number of government incentives have been introduced over the years to meet the country's ‘green’ tagets, including Feed-in-Tariffs in 2010 and Renewable Heat Grants ...
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The government's new Green Homes Grant is due to be launched in England in September 2020. Under the scheme the government will fund between £5,000 ...
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A £2 billion home insulation grant scheme is due to be introduced in September to encourage homeowners in England to make energy saving improvements to ...
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Denbighshire County Council's planning officers recommended that an affordable housing development should be built, even though it would mean building in an at-risk flood area, ...
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The energy efficiency of British homes must be urgently improved, according to experts. In 2018, the UK's homes produce nearly 66 million tonnes of CO2 ...
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A household survey of over 2,000 UK homeowners has been published on behalf of the Home Builders Federation, in preparation for a summit to plot ...
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You may live in a disability friendly home but looking for a disability friendly hotel room that breaks with tradition may not be straightforward. To ...
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The picturesque town of Oakham in Rutland has no permanent speed traps, is home to England's largest reservoir and boasts the remains of a Norman ...
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A number of cities have made, or are planning to make, their centres free from traffic. In the UK Bath, Birmingham, Oxford and York have ...
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The modern political slang term ‘woke’ has African American origins and refers to the perceived awareness of issues concerning social and racial justice. The property ...
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If you've put the lawnmower away for the year and need an excuse not to get it out again next spring, you might like to ...
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At Staffordshire's Keele University, a group of students is embarking on a one year project which will teach them how to live sustainably. The mainly ...
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The Royal Institute of Architecture's biggest award has this year been awarded to a project by Norwich City Council. As well as the RIBA Stirling Prize ...
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Portsmouth City Council hopes to 'put people first' by changing the way people travel. It plans to create a community that is 'more visible', thus ...
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The not-for-profit organisation, Central Office of Public Interest (COPI), raises national awareness on air pollution. It began its latest campaign, addresspollution.org, in May this year ...
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Climate change and our impact on the environment are likely to have a long-term impact on the planet. We look at passive housing, a concept ...
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The Scottish Government set out ambitious plans in 2007 to build more low carbon homes although house builders have felt little pressure from home buyers ...
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A family living completely off-grid in Cumbria claims that their only outgoing is council tax. Their home is just outside the small village of Gamblesby, ...
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No-one can have missed the recent media reports and stark messages about global warming. There is a  general consensus that we must sit up and ...
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New regulations have been announced following a report from the Committee on Climate Change (CCC)  that advises the government. The new standard bans the use of ...
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The development of new housing without sufficient transport infrastructure in place has contributed to greater car dependency, leaving non-drivers of all ages isolated, less active ...
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Few of the increasing number of homes in the UK are without a washing machine, dishwasher, bath or shower, but did you know that the ...
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An offshore dairy farm will be the first of its kind in the world, when it opens later this year in the port of Rotterdam ...
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An impressive Grade II Listed decommissioned lighthouse, built on Orford Ness on the Suffolk coastline, now stands on its own peninsula and is at risk ...
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Following a Court of Appeal ruling, Network Rail has lost its appeal over damages that could enable land owners to claim damages if Japanese Knotweed ...
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The summer of 2018 will be remembered for reaching the semi-final stages of the World Cup and for the record-breaking hot weather that we have ...
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Residents of homes along the sandy cliffs of Hemby, on the Norfolk coast, are no strangers to coastal erosion. Indeed, their homes have been tumbling ...
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Japanese Knotweed (F.japonica) is a problem. It is hugely invasive, can prevent you from selling your home and, indeed, mortgage lenders are unlikely to lend ...
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Most people would agree that focusing on making our homes more energy efficient would in turn reduce demand and costs. However, an independent climate change organisation ...
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There are now around 17,000 district and communal heating networks (HNs) in the UK, delivering heat from a central source to public sector buildings, offices ...
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The news that the percentage of the UK land area that is densely built upon is 0.1% has won the title of UK Statistic of ...
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In a number of mainly riverside and coastal areas around Britain, the more extreme weather occurrences of the last few years have caused land erosion ...
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Rats are reportedly on the increase this autumn, due to a combination of wetter weather and cooler temperatures. Rats are most likely to seek food ...
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Section 74A of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 and the Street Works (charges for occupation of the highway) (England) Regulations 2012 have ...
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Some areas across the UK received over two weeks of rain in less than an hour on 18th July, while an inch of rain fell ...
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