The long-running plan to redevelop the Nine Elms area, which is now entering its third round of pre-application public consultation, involves building a prototypical modern mixture of residential units, commercial space, and restaurants. Covent Garden Market Authority is looking to appoint a developer to take the project forward, and have drafted in Foster & Partners and Neil Tomlinson Architects to knock up these arboreal fantasies.

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Plans for a new stadium for Bristol City Football Club are "moving ahead" after planning permission was granted for a store on their current ground.

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The launch of the long awaited 2011-15 Affordable Homes Programme by the DCLG and HCA sees affordable housing providers face a one-in-four-year chance to secure the DCLG/HCA's unallocated funds.

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The handful of councillors who decide the fate of the propoed Sainsbury's superstore at Ashton Gate, Bristol next week could put the council in a difficult position if they refuse to give consent.   The refusal would open the door to the original scheme – turned down by the council last summer – being built instead.

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The way has been cleared for 37,000 homes and 27,000 jobs in and around Norwich in the next 15 years after a controversial blueprint for growth was given the green light by planning inspectors.....

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Cardiff council's decision to designate land at Llanishen reservoir for nature conservation has been overturned by the High Court in London.

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It takes a real provocation to elicit a rebuke to London's Tory Mayor from a Tory assembly member. But Boris's plans to extend the Crossrail development tax to all projects over 100 square metres has been attacked by true-blue Transport Committee.....

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Despite pulling the plug on the barrage, there was still some hope tidal energy schemes might come to fruition in the Severn estuary in the future.  Plans for a 10-mile barrage across the Severn estuary to generate renewable electricity from the tides have been dropped by the UK government.

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A public consultation opens today on the first section of the all-England coastal path.   Natural England, the Government’s advisory body on the natural environment, launched the exercise to gauge views on the proposed path

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A green power station is to be built in Bristol which will burn items such as food, cardboard and green waste.  Councillors gave permission for the station alongside a mechanical biological treatment facility which is currently under construction

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