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Water corporations nearly breached licences to maintain provide flowing, paperwork present

Several water corporations got here near breaching their licences so as to preserve public water provide after the extreme warmth and dry climate final summer season, Environment Agency (EA) paperwork present.Obtained by a freedom of knowledge request by Unearthed, Greenpeace’s investigative journalism unit, the...

United Utilities fined £800,000 for over-abstracting water in Lancashire

It brought on a major decline within the Fylde Aquifer, which is a crucial public water provide for residents within the North West and in addition helps the flows of native rivers.The over-abstraction throughout a interval of very dry climate in 2018 means the...

Tory method to housebuilding ‘targeted not protectionist’, says Sunak

Rishi Sunak has stated Government housebuilding efforts should not about “uncontrolled development”, as he moved to reassure Tory backbenchers involved over planning reform.It comes after Housing Secretary Michael Gove used a speech in London to set out a variety of planning reforms, together with...

Rishi Sunak hits out at ‘top-down targets’ on housebuilding

Rishi Sunak hit out at “top-down targets” on housebuilding as Downing Street insisted he stands by the Conservative manifesto dedication to construct 300,000 properties a yr by the mid-2020s.Housing Secretary Michael Gove, delivering a speech on planning reforms in London on Monday, expressed his...

Thames Water misses targets on leakages, air pollution and utilization

Thames Water has missed half of its efficiency targets, together with these on leakages, sewer flooding, air pollution, blockages and buyer utilization.The provider has struggled to fulfill its objectives for the 2022/23 12 months whereas it battles to stave off nationalisation as a consequence...