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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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A briefing on cllimate change and human rights which is part of the programme of events for the Fleet Street Quarter Climate Festival.
A lecture and panel discussion on Environment & Human Rights: Insights from the Aarhus Convention. The lecture will be given by Professor Áine Ryall, Chair of the UNECE Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee, and will be followed by a Q&A with an esteemed panel which includes Professor Maria Lee and FTB Barrister Mark O’Brien O’Reilly.
This afternoon case law update will be given by Andrew Fraser-Urquhart KC and Kate Olley.
Questions of environmental justice, the climate crisis, biodiversity and resource management are among the defining issues of our time.
Inspector Partington has granted planning permission for a 23 MW solar farm on 55ha of land outside Wakefield (see Decision Letter here).
In a detailed decision the High Court has, on the papers, refused permission to apply for judicial review of the decision of East Herts DC to grant outline planning permission for 10,000 homes across 7 new Villages.
