PHE has launched a new tool for local public health teams identifying the most cost effective mental health programmes.

The government has published the terms of reference for the independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety.

A project that helps people with good ideas set up a very small help, care or support service has been delivered in Somerset.

Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council are to install 100 electric vehicle charging stations in Oxford’s residential streets.

Bus users across England will benefit from cleaner and greener journeys with a roll out of low emission buses.
Local authorities and bus companies in Bristol, York, Brighton, Surrey, Denbighshire and Wiltshire have been awarded the funding under the government’s ‘Low emission bus scheme’ to help them buy 153 cleaner buses.

Almost £500,000 will be awarded to community projects to tackle littering, the Environment Minister has announced.
The money will support the development of new innovation and approaches for tackling litter, from better positioned bins and recycling points to digital technology. This includes apps and ‘smart-bins’ that text alerts to rubbish collectors when they are full, stopping litter spill out onto the street or leading people to litter nearby.
Cleaning up the country’s streets costs tax payers almost £800 million a year.

The final wall cladding combination has passed and meets current Building Regulations guidance.
This final test was of a wall cladding system consisting of Aluminium Composite material (ACM) cladding with a limited combustibility filler (category 1 in screening tests) with stone wall insulation.