Gareth Hooper, Director in DPP's Cardiff office, comments in EG on DTZ's controversial plans for a temporary carpark to replace the St David's Shopping Centre in Swansea.

NAMA was created by the Irish government to acquire and manage loans from struggling Irish banks but it is only now...

The Government has set out a number of mechanisms to incentivise small and medium scale energy generation in Great Britain. FITs were introduced in April 2010 to incentivise renewable electricity generation schemes of up to five megawatts (MW). Eligible technologies include solar photovoltaic (PV), anaerobic digestion, hydroelectric, micro combined heat and power and wind.

The government should consider tax breaks for hundreds of thousands of private landlords to encourage them to adopt energy saving measures offered by the government under the Energy Security and Green Economy Bill, says sustainability and planning consultancy DPP...

The much anticipated Comprehensive Spending Review was formally set out on 20 October, but the ramifications and finer detail will take weeks if not months to become clear and understood....

The government’s decision not to recycle the revenues raised by the Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) Energy Efficiency Scheme...

Support behind the zero carbon ambition was one of the few unequivocal areas of the coalition Government as it came into power earlier this year....

In Building a Greener Future - Policy Statement (July 2007), the Government set the target for new homes at net zero carbon from 2016. To achieve this, energy efficiency standards for new homes are to be improved by 25 per cent in 2010 and a further 44 per cent in 2013 relative to current 2006 standards. These changes are to be implemented through the Building Regulations as part of their 3 yearly review.

The need for renewable energy is well established. The UK, EU and UN have repeatedly stated that climate change is having the single biggest impact on our planet and it has shaped policy areas in national governments around the world...

All new-build houses in Wales will from 1 September need to conform to strict new environmental regulations which, says independent planning consultancy....