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Great British Energy Act 2025 and Its Implications for Pre-Construction Planning
Great British Energy Act 2025: De‑Risking Clean Energy Schemes The new state‑backed drive for renewables is accelerating projects—but it also heightens scrutiny on design efficiency and environmental risks. […]
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ADR 2025: How New Asbestos Waste Transport Rules Affect Demolition Projects
ADR 2025 & Asbestos Waste: Don’t Let Logistics Halt Your Programme ADR 2025 introduces stricter requirements for packaging, labelling and transporting asbestos waste. Demolition and strip‑out programmes are […]
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Leveraging the Environmental Improvement Plan for Sustainable Developments
Aligning Projects with the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) The EIP sets national targets across water, air, nature and waste. Planning officers increasingly expect applicants to demonstrate how schemes […]
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Biodiversity Net Gain: Why Every Development Needs It in 2025
Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) Made Practical BNG is now mandatory for most developments, requiring at least a 10% uplift measured via the statutory metric. This raises the bar […]
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Greenbelt Development? How Environmental Delivery Plans Can Keep You Compliant
Environmental Delivery Plans (EDPs) for Greenbelt Schemes Policy shifts are asking more from applicants in sensitive locations. Environmental Delivery Plans (EDPs) set out how projects will protect and […]
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Listed Buildings May Soon Need EPCs — What That Means for MEES Compliance
Listed Buildings, EPCs and MEES: Getting Ahead of Change Government consultations indicate listed buildings may face tighter energy performance expectations, eroding longstanding exemptions. For owners and developers, the […]
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Understanding the Water (Special Measures) Act 2025 and Its Impact
Water (Special Measures) Act 2025: What It Means for Developers With tougher powers for regulators and heightened scrutiny on water infrastructure, projects touching networks, treatment assets or sensitive […]
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Expanded Asbestos Requirements for Ceiling Work in Refurbishment
Ceiling Works & the 2025 Asbestos Reality Check Ceiling refurbishments in pre‑2000 buildings—replastering, painting, downlight installs or fire-stopping—now fall squarely under tougher asbestos expectations in 2025. Contractors and […]
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What the New 2025 SuDS Standards Mean for Developers
SuDS 2025: What Developers Need to Know The 2025 update to Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) guidance is reshaping how planning departments assess surface water management. Local planning authorities […]
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New Water Standards Put SuDS at the Centre of Planning
Why SuDS keep gaining ground Updated guidance and public pressure to reduce pollution are pushing SuDS to the centre of planning. Multifunctional drainage that slows, stores, and treats […]
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Planning for a Nature Levy – Reduce Costs by Designing BNG In
What a nature levy could mean Proposals for a nature restoration levy would increase costs for schemes that do not integrate biodiversity from the outset. While details are […]
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River Health in Focus – Strengthen Water Quality Evidence
Rivers in the spotlight With funds from pollution fines being reinvested into river health projects, expectations on new developments to protect water quality are rising. Planners increasingly ask […]
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