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Co-op Live Manchester is the £365m entertainment venue that plans to make Manchester the musical capital of Europe.
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The case concerns two related applications for the construction and operation of large offshore windfarms in the North Sea.
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In 2016 the Government announced proposals for a Holocaust Memorial in Victoria Tower Gardens immediately to the south of the Houses of Parliament.
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Walleys Quarry is a waste landfill site locate in Newcastle Under Lyme and which opened in February 2007.
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The Sizewell C new nuclear power station at Sizewell in East Suffolk is one of the single most important energy infrastructure projects in the UK for a generation.
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The O2 Academy Brixton is an internationally renowned concert venue, with audiences travelling from all over the world to attend live music events and comedy shows. The iconic stage design is based on Venice’s Rialto bridge and frames Europe’s largest fixed stage. The capacity of the venue is in the region of 5,000 persons.
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Last week a Written Ministerial Statement and associated Guidance set out details of the new system for local plan making.
In this free lunchtime webinar for developers and local planning authorities, Andrew Fraser-Urquhart KC and Alexander Greaves will take a look at the provisions and consider the immediate implications of the new system.
A lunchtime webinar which will be of interest to all solicitors whose work – whether advisory or litigation, public or private sector – involves public law issues and the prospect of judicial review litigation.
An afternoon update seminar followed by a short drinks reception.
Questions of environmental justice, the climate crisis, biodiversity and resource management are among the defining issues of our time.
The E11 Coffee Lounge in Leytonstone, within the London Borough of Waltham Forest, faced a multi-agency intelligence-led raid in January 2025. Officers from the Home Office’s Immigration Enforcement Team, together with police and licensing officers, arrested four people suspected of being illegal workers.
RWE challenged an Inspector’s refusal to allow a DNS application for up to six wind turbines on land bordering the southern edge of the Bannau Brecheiniog National Park. Seven grounds were advanced including that the Inspector failed to consider the development plan as a whole, did not assess whether there were exceptional circumstances justifying the scheme, and acted irrationally by concluding that the project’s ecological benefits could not be realised because permission was being refused due to landscape impacts.
