Notice: HU14 3HH, Transwaste Recycling and Aggregates Limited: environmental permit issued

The Environment Agency publish permits that they issue under the Industrial Emissions Directive (IED).

This decision includes the permit and decision document for:

  • Operator name: Transwaste Recycling and Aggregates Limited
  • Installation name: Melton Waste Park
  • Permit number: EPR/BP3792LD/V006



Official Statistics: European Forest Accounts: UK 2014 data

This release contains data on stocks and flows of wooded land and timber and economic data on UK forestry to be submitted to Eurostat for the production of EU statistics on forestry. It replaces the previous Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting for Forestry.




News story: Welsh Secretary launches series of Brexit discussions

Starting in Builth Wells today, Secretary of State for Wales, Alun Cairns and Minister for Wales, Guto Bebb will meet farmers, farming unions and other representatives from the agriculture sector to seek their views on powers returning from the EU.

In particular, the discussion is expected to focus on where decisions might, in future, be taken at a local level and the areas in which UK wide frameworks might be desirable.

Over the following weeks, Ministers will meet representatives from a range of sectors, including manufacturing and life sciences, in a number of locations across the whole of Wales. They will be seeking answers from these sectors to seven key questions:

  1. What thinking have you done about these powers returning from the EU?
  2. What do you think would work best for the people you represent?
  3. Where do you think consistent standards or local variation may be required?
  4. How best do we ensure day 1 legal certainty and continuity?
  5. What opportunities do you think exiting the EU offers the people/industry you represent?
  6. What should we do to make sure that we don’t create barriers to living or doing business within the UK?
  7. What common standards do we need to make sure that the UK can strike future trade deals that benefit the whole of the UK?

Speaking ahead of the first event, Secretary of State for Wales, Alun Cairns, said:

I am determined to make sure that Wales is in the strongest possible position to benefit from Brexit and these events will help us to understand how the UK Government can deliver the best solution.

The people I plan to meet over the coming weeks are in the engine room, helping to keep the Welsh economy growing. By working together I am confident we can make the most of this unique opportunity to build a stronger, fairer Britain that works for everyone.

Steve Hughson, Chief Executive of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, said:

With a rapidly changing political and financial climate, it essential that all areas of the agricultural industry come together and devise a way to make the most out of these changes.

It is fitting that the first of the UK Government’s meetings takes place today here at the showground, the home of the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society, which has become an important platform for such high profile consultations over the years.

Representing over 21,000 members from all agricultural and rural sectors and communities throughout Wales, the society will be contributing to these discussions and helping shape and influence the future of Welsh agriculture.




Notice: Downstream of Town Bridge, Peterborough to the Dog in a Doublet

When: 4 February 2017 between 9am and 3.30pm

What’s happening: There is a rowing event taking place on the river Nene at the locations and times stated.




Notice: Doddington Lock and Islip Lock

When: 1 February 2017 between 10am and 2pm.

What’s happening: There will be a power outage at the locks during the period stated.