LED’s (Light emitting diodes) are being promoted by manufacturers as the panacea to all our lighting needs and to reducing costs and carbon emissions from public lighting. Senior partner Allen Creedy recently chaired an EU Sustainable Energy Week workshop on the contribution that LED lighting can make. Allen was asked to chair […]
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The most economically and environmentally effective response to austerity and the recession we are experiencing is to invest in energy efficiency. Yes – invest. Here in the UK, like most other countries we are subsidising fossil fuels in the generation of electricity – perhaps we should stopping subsidies for fossil fuel consumptionand starting […]
This week is the European Union’s “Sustainable Energy Week” with technical demonstrations and briefings and importantly some new EU wide policy announcements; www.eusew.eu Allen Creedy will be moderating the LED workshop in Brussels that will report on existing urban lighting best practices in European cities and the recommended new policies, strategies and will look at some of the new […]
ethical partnership is a member of the federation of small businesses (fsb)and are concerned to ensure that our colleagues in the retail sector are supported wherever possible – we’ll advice on planning issues as well! In this short article we describe what support the Coalition Government has recently been made […]
The European Commission has adopted a draft legislative package which will frame cohesion policy for 2014-2020. The new proposals are designed to reinforce the strategic dimension of the policy and to ensure that EU investment is targeted on Europe’s long-term goals for growth and jobs (“Europe 2020”). Through Partnership Contracts […]
Since the government published its long awaited and controversial National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) on 27 March, we have a “presumption in favour of sustainable development”. Greg Clark says in his introduction to the document, “development that is sustainable should go ahead, without delay”. The good news here is that […]