03 Dec 2018

The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee’s Scrutiny of the Agriculture Bill report calls on the Government to ensure imported food products are held to current British standards as part of any future trade deal. Read the conclusions and recommendations Read the full report: Scrutiny of the Agriculture Bill The inquiry was launched alongside the […]

13 Nov 2018

Natural England   EIA (Agriculture) regulations: apply to make changes to rural land use Find out when you need to apply for an environmental impact assessment (EIA) screening or consent decision to change rural land use. Click to read more Contents When to get permission to change rural land Apply for a screening decision Apply for […]

02 May 2018

Soil is currently being destroyed ten times faster than it’s being created. This is not only putting the farming sector at risk and costing England & Wales £1.2 billion a year, but is affecting the health of our rivers. A new report by WWF, The Rivers Trust and The Angling Trusts shows that spending approximately £10 million […]

18 Oct 2016

Don’t be put off by the title of this Environmental Audit Committee evidence. Some seriously big hitters can be seen contributing to this developing debate. Water is at the heart of much of the session. Brexit is providing a major opportunity to look at more constructive ways of incentivising farmers to do the right thing.   […]

04 Aug 2016

Brexit: Water & Farming  In the UK we have an excellent, world beating understanding of how farming and land-use affects the water cycle and catchment management and various programmes in place to address this. This theme will address how this theme is being addresses in Brexit debate; it now contains five articles (August 4th) see […]

28 Jul 2016

This theme of the Brexit issue will build cumulatively over the weeks with new articles being added to the list. The Environmental Audit committee have committed to a review of the Brexit decision on the environment and predominantly on the relationship with farming. This issue has enormous implications for many areas of the water industry […]

13 Apr 2016

Sign up here for this gold mine of information Email: relu@ncl.ac.uk to subscribe/unsubscribe – also see Relu http://www.relu.ac.uk/news/   The contents of the April newsletter are set out below along with the first two articles April contents include and can be viewed with links by clicking here New centre on evaluation of UK energy, water, environment […]