Michael Lee-Wright

  • Rising levels: the levy could be used to provide increased funds for large infrastructure works, such as flood defences
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    Planning: if the levy breaks ...

    11 December 2009

    The community infrastructure levy is due to come into force next year, but there are obstacles in its way

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    Q&A

    21 December 2001

    The need for an environmental impact assessment is the bane of speculative developers. Monitoring has shown that LPAs are asking for EIA in many more cases than expected. When the EIA Regulations were revised in 1999, the government anticipated only 55 more EIAs per year in England and Wales. The ...

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    Waste watchers

    4 February 2000

    The waste management industry must comply with a glut of EC-driven regulations, but without incentives companies may become unscrupulous

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    Assessing outline applications

    6 August 1999

    Planning The 1999 Environmental Assessment Regulations may have gone a long way to clarify the rules in this area, but they have still left unresolved the problem of outline applications.