The death of community renewables?

The National Infrastructure Plan, announced on Wednesday, revealed details about the levels of financial support for onshore and offshore wind farms between 2015 and 2019. It showed that government support for onshore wind will drop from […]

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To Frack or not to Frack

Ethical partnership is concerned about how the unconventional gas industry seems to be  securing permission for exploratory drilling in advance of the long term environmental and health consequences being fully understood and without a comprehensive regulatory and […]

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What question would you ask energy companies?

As part of the Energy and Climate Change Committee’s inquiry ‘Energy prices, profits and poverty’, the Committee will hold an oral evidence session questioning senior figures from energy companies on Tuesday 16 April at 10am. […]

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Influencing government policy

Allen Creedy a senior partner at Ethical partnership has recently been elected as the  Chairman of the Environment Energy and Policy Unit at the Federation of Small Businesses. Clients should not be worried as Allen will continue […]

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Funding for 50,000 new homes!

The Chancellors’ Autumn Statement announced a £225m fund for the delivery of 50,000 new homes in large, locally-supported housing programmes. Aimed at housing schemes that already have planning permission but are lacking in funding the […]

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New Homes Bonus – but not for the North!

New research commissioned by public service union Unison confirms what most housing professionals have known for a while – that that the Government’s New Homes Bonus Scheme is draining scarce funding away from the recession-hit […]

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Speeding up development or death to local democracy?

In their efforts to kick start the economy the Government has set out proposals to widen the scope of the planning regime for nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs) to some categories of commercial and business development. These […]

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Fast track infrastructure? or death of Localism?

“Will local planning decisions become a thing of the past because of new Infrastructure Act?”. Senior partner Allen Creedy expresses his concern that in their effort to speed up infrastructure investment the coalition government may […]

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Don’t blame the planners!

Recent research has confirmed what most planners already knew – what’s stopping house building is the state of the economy not council planners! The research demonstrates that planning permission has been granted for nearly 400,000 […]

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