With the voice of Alexa and Siri commonplace in many homes already, you would be forgiven for thinking that our homes are alive? However, what if they went one step further. What if our homes in […]
Growing Upwards with Green Walls
Developers often find it difficult to balance the safe and practical solutions to landscaping, access routes and groundworks with sustaining ecological balance, especially when the footprint area of a development needs to be considered. With […]
One Tree at a Time: The ‘mind-blowing potential’ to tackle climate crisis
Leading scientists have discovered that planting billions of trees across the world is by far the biggest and cheapest way to tackle the climate crisis. Interestingly, they have made calculations as to how many more trees […]
The Importance of Planning Cycle Lanes
Cycle lanes have been in the news recently as many opponents to the idea have been using misguided arguments against them. For all the (slight) progress in some UK cities over mass cycling, we are […]
The Benefits of an Eco-Friendly Home
When you build in an environmentally friendly way there are a number of benefits, along with being cost effective and rewarding. Alongside helping to protect the environment you can also expect increased energy efficiency, lower […]
Cuts to Renewable Energy Threaten Environmental Progress
With the number of jobs in the renewable energy sector in the UK dropping by nearly a third in recent years, and the amount of new green generating capacity dropping by a similar amount, more […]
The ‘Right Waste, Right Place’ Campaign
Every establishment and business across the United Kingdom has a responsibility for the waste and they produce and how they deal with it. At Ethical Partnership we are working with the ‘Right Waste, Right Place’ campaign […]
Biodiversity Net Gain – A Benefit for You and the Environment
The planning system in England may be about to change as we know it, as the government’s 25 Year Environment Plan is looking to embed net gain for biodiversity within the system. This new consultation […]
General election – any manifesto’s for planning?
Will the environment, housing and the planning system feature in the forthcoming general election? Some constituencies and prospective MP’s will feature it in their local campaigns, particularly where there are sky high housing prices, a […]
BREXIT and the environment – what’s in prospect?
Chemicals, greenhouse gases (GHGs) and pesticides are the most complex areas of legislation for Defra to prepare for the process of leaving the EU, Defra minister Thérèse Coffey has told peers. Giving evidence to the […]
Lords call for government rethink on the built environment
The National Policy for the Built Environment Committee has recently asserted the importance of delivering a better built environment and is concerned about; the quality of new developments and the risk of housing delivery being […]