planning

Drilling set to start within weeks, after government controversially signs off on latest fracking project

Government revises National Planning Policy Framework to enable English local authorities to green light proposals to upgrade or repower existing wind farms

Friends of the Earth's Craig Bennett argues the justification for new coal mines is collapsing - it is time for the government to act

Environmentalists have written to ministers, asking them to reform the planning system so that all future coal mines are automatically refused

Decision letter confirms that Secretary of State gave "very considerable weight" to greenhouse gas emissions that would result from controversial coal mine

BREAKING: On the day a long-awaited decision on future of plans for open cast coal mine was expected, government confirms it has deferred the ruling without setting a new deadline

EXCLUSIVE: Friends of the Earth writes to Communities Secretary Sajid Javid to warn approval for new open cast coal mine would be "entirely at odds with government's coal phase-out policy"

County council grants temporary permission to fracking firm Cuadrilla for shale gas exploration in Balcombe, despite thousands of objections from local residents

Survey finds 62 per cent would not be happy living near the small modular reactors backed by government and industry

Autonomous vehicles have many benefits, but they may be bad news for nature conservation