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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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Will the new Government’s proposed changes to the planning system, in particular to the NPPF and Standard Method, achieve a fundamental shift in housing delivery as claimed? Are you up to date with recent planning caselaw on these hot topics and how the proposed changes might affect this?
An afternoon update seminar for licensing professionals in private practice, local government and police forces.
This afternoon seminar will focus on legal matters relevant to compulsory purchase and compensation and should be of benefit to all those working in this field including acquiring authority officers, solicitors, surveyors, planners, accountants and developers.
Questions of environmental justice, the climate crisis, biodiversity and resource management are among the defining issues of our time.
The Environment Secretary has ordered that an extensive area of registered common land in Devon is deregistered, and that replacement land is registered in its place.
The Supreme Court has granted the Open Spaces Society (OSS) permission to intervene in the upcoming appeal of the decision of the Court of Appeal in Darwall v Dartmoor National Park Authority [2023] EWCA Civ 927.
