Waste and Renewable Resources eBulletin, January 2010

Waste and Renewable Resources eBulletin
January 2010

In this issue:

•	Carbon Reduction Scheme Underway
•	Planning Rules could be relaxed for Renewables
•	UK Signs up to Offshore Wind Grid
•	EA uses Proceeds of Crime Act against Waste Offender

Our specialist waste and renewable resources sector team, including lawyers and planning consultants, provides a complete range of services for the waste and renewable resources industry.

Philip Kratz, one of our Planning Partners, has recently been appointed as a member of the Law Society Planning and Environmental Law Committee; the Committee's remit is to keep under review, and promote improvements in, planning and environmental law and procedure, and Philip will be reviewing proposed forthcoming legislation as part of his new role.

In this edition, we will look at some of the issues which might affect your business including the carbon reduction scheme, the planning rules regarding renewables, the development of offshore wind grid and how the Proceeds of Crime Act is used against waste offenders.

I hope you find this eBulletin useful and interesting.

Please let me know if you have any suggestions about any other information that you would like to see in the eBulletin or any other way in which we can improve it.

Yours sincerely

Michael Krantz
Partner
DMH Stallard
Tel 020 7822 1630
Michael.Krantz@dmhstallard

Find out more about our specialist Waste and Renewable Resources Team.

Carbon Reduction Scheme Underway
On 21 October 2009, British Gas entered into agreements with ten communities across the country under the government’s new Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP). British Gas is the first energy supplier to implement the programme since the CESP...

Planning Rules could be relaxed for Renewables
To complement the CESP on which we reported above, Housing and Planning Minister, John Healey, recently launched a three month consultation on overhauling the planning system to allow homeowners, developers and businesses to install their own on-site wind...

UK Signs up to Offshore Wind Grid
At the end of last year nine countries, including the UK, signed a Political Declaration, launching an initiative to cooperate on the development of an integrated offshore grid in the North and Irish Seas. The other eight countries involved are Germany,...

EA uses Proceeds of Crime Act against Waste Offender
A person found guilty of a waste offence, and sentenced to a 16 month prison sentence in 2007, has recently been ordered to sell land and properties to pay £176,519.10 to the Environment Agency under the Proceeds of Crime Act (PoCA). ...