A Nature and Wellbeing Summit, hosted in Bristol as part of the city’s year as European Green Capital, is bringing together leading UK and European practitioners, researchers and decision-makers to discuss the value of nature in our society with a specific focus on landscapes and nature-based solutions for health and wellbeing. The summit [4/5…
The Davies Commission’s consultation on options for airport expansion in the south east of England has just ended. The Commission put forward three options – one at Gatwick and two at Heathrow. We’ve just sent in our response that focuses on the noise impacts on places nearby – including our places like Osterley or Leith…
The National Trust welcomes the announcement of the Private Rental Sector regulations and congratulates the government on the responsible approach it has taken to achieving energy efficiency in the large proportion of traditional buildings within this sector. As Europe’s largest Conservation charity and a landlord that holds most of its property inalienably, the National Trust…
…when it is a ‘road of beauty, of form enhancing function’, according to Roads Minister John Hayes, who yesterday set out a ‘new aesthetic vision’ for England’s road network. On a platform provided by the Campaign to Protect Rural England, the Campaign for Better Transport, and law firm Bircham Dyson Bell, John Hayes made an…
A partnership coordinated by ResPublica involving the National Trust, the Woodland Trust, Campaign to Protect Rural England and Civic Voice, is taking forward a unique programme of activity on beauty and its contribution to social prosperity. Beauty plays a central role in enabling people and communities to flourish. Beautiful places improve local public health and wellbeing,…
Responding to a speech by Shadow Environment Secretary Maria Eagle MP at RSPB’s Headquarters today, Richard Hebditch, External Affairs Director at the National Trust, said: “This is an important and much needed intervention by Shadow Environment Minister Maria Eagle setting out what she would want a Labour government to achieve on the natural environment; especially…
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has today published the remit of Labour’s proposed National Infrastructure Commission – the new body the party proposes to plan long-term infrastructure provision in the UK. This takes forward the work of Sir John Armitt, the Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority, who has been drawing up proposals for the party.…
