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

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

Natasha Jackson considers the Government's plans in the EIP 2025 for improving the country's waters.

January 16, 2026

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

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Council agrees to quash environmental permit for incineration scheme

January 15, 2026

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

January 09, 2026

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

December 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

High Court grants permission for judicial review over alleged regulatory failings of Environment Agency in respect of landfill site emissions

May 30, 2025

Charity gets green light for challenge to permission for 170-home scheme amid concerns over sewage works and river pollution

May 30, 2025

Council to consider adopting legal protections for rare chalk streams

May 14, 2025

Law Society issues practice note for property solicitors on climate change

May 13, 2025

Campaigners issue proceedings over ministerial claim Planning and Infrastructure Bill will not diminish environmental protections

May 13, 2025

Council issues two fixed penalty notices for breaches of PSPO aimed at protecting Lake District from effects of wild camping

May 08, 2025

Legal action over Walleys Quarry dropped after defendant company is liquidated

May 08, 2025

Council tells company behind illegal wood felling ordered to replant hundreds of trees

May 08, 2025

Planning and Infrastructure Bill represents legislative “regression”, environmental watchdog says

May 06, 2025

Welsh environmental watchdog to appoint two providers to £1.56m parliamentary legal services framework

May 02, 2025

High Court hears legal challenge to proposed zip wire in “tranquil” quarry

May 02, 2025

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

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

January 15, 2026

Claudia Hyde looks at the second goal in the Government’s EIP (Environmental Improvement Plan), which looks at air quality.

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

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

January 14, 2026

Natasha Jackson begins a series of articles on the Government’s EIP (Environmental Improvement Plan) goals, looking at restoring nature.

Airport expansion, EIAs and emissions

Airport expansion, EIAs and emissions

December 10, 2025

Estelle Dehon KC, Ruchi Parekh, and Hannah Taylor look at the lessons from the High Court’s recent dismissal of a challenge to approval for the expansion of Luton Airport.

Calculation of Biodiversity Net Gain

Calculation of Biodiversity Net Gain

December 09, 2025

The High Court recently rejected a judicial review challenge over the decision to redevelop Bristol Zoo Gardens, providing guidance on Biodiversity Net Gain, Carbon Calculations and Open Space. Peter Goatley KC and Sioned Davies analyse the ruling.

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

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

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

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

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

Sep 11, 2025

Aarhus cost protection in traffic order challenges

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

The Office for Environmental Protection and local authorities

Aug 01, 2025

Flood risk and emerging Local Plans

Aug 01, 2025

Powering the future: Legal insight on driving demand for hydrogen in the UK

Jul 30, 2025

Onshore wind opportunities for local authorities in 2025

Jul 24, 2025

Maximising ROI in renewable energy: Legal, technical, and financial strategies for net-zero success

Jul 17, 2025

The Environment (Principles, Governance and Biodiversity Targets (Wales) Bill: the key provisions

Jul 17, 2025

Planning reform to accelerate housing delivery - at what cost?

Jun 11, 2025

Gas-fired power stations and greenhouse gas emissions

Jun 11, 2025

The role of the Nature Restoration Fund

May 14, 2025

When are statistics ‘held’ for the EIA/ FOIA?

May 09, 2025

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