Bath & North East Somerset Council has provided the final green light for a charging Clean Air Zone for central Bath.

The design of new housing developments in England is overwhelmingly ‘mediocre’ or ‘poor’, with less-affluent communities the worst affected.

The slow pace of improving building safety standards will no longer be tolerated under new measures to improve building safety.

Proposals for all new homes in Wales ro be heated and powered only from clean energy sources from 2025 have been outlined.

Kirklees Council has agreed to invest £2 million in electric vehicles and charging points.

Hull is seeking to become the first UK city to test a weekly universal basic income for its residents.

The Local Government Association has found that local buses are travelling almost 150 million fewer miles than they were 10 years ago.
Having fallen to their lowest level since the mid-Eighties, the latest annual figures show that buses in England travelled a distance of 1.18 billion miles in 2018/19, down from 1.33 billion in 2008/09. Bus passenger journeys have also dropped by 318 million between 2018/19 and 2008/09.

The government has announced that village halls in England have received £1.2 million to aid community hubs in making vital refurbishments.

In the first three months of a trial scheme run by Portsmouth City Council, local residents have recycled more than 175 tonnes of food scraps.
During the six-month trial, which started on 16 September 2019, people in selected areas are putting waste food into kitchen caddies. Instead of being incinerated and energy being recovered, the waste is recycled and turned into fuel and fertiliser.