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		<title>Planning for Climate Change Guide</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michael Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Government has signalled a radical shift of responsibility to local authority and community levels. This guide is designed primarily for local authorities and new Local Enterprise Partnerships who want both to tackle climate change and to reap the benefits that renewable energy and effective adaptation can bring. It draws explicitly on the draft Planning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Plant-Fungal Partnerships Reveal How the World Became Green</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 12:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prehistoric plants grown in state-of-the-art growth chambers recreating environmental conditions from more than 400 million years ago have shown scientists from the University of Sheffield how soil dwelling fungi played a crucial role in the evolution of plants. This ground breaking work provides fundamental knowledge of how plants colonised the land before roots evolved and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lands Tribunal Compensation Decision S.203 and Tree Preservation Orders</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 09:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hamilton Terrace Case Review A case review relating to the issues surrounding the administration of Tree Preservation Orders and risks to administering authorities as this relates to claims for compensation for refusal of consent to allow tree felling.]]></description>
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		<title>greenspace design for health and wellbeing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This new practice guide from the Forestry Commission aims to inspire everyone involved with outdoor spaces in healthcare settings to think how they could be used for therapeutic purposes. Focusing on outdoor spaces across the NHS estate, the guidance is relevant to the full range of facilities, from the largest hospital to the smallest health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ground water levels in drought hit East Yorkshire now normal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 07:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Record rainfall in April and a wet start to May has improved East Yorkshire&#8217;s ground water levels to such an extent that Yorkshire Water has today announced that they are now back to normal for the time of the year. This is a remarkable turnaround considering stocks were 20% depleted only 6 weeks ago. With [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trees trust has no case to answer in road death</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 07:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE Woodlands Trust has been cleared of breaching health and safety laws by failing to properly maintain one of its trees. The prosecution followed the death of 25-year-old landscape gardener Alex McDonald in February 2008 after a 50-foot tall mature beech fell onto his van at Blaeberry Woods in Whitburn, West Lothian. On the fifth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Specialist Seminar 15th June 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 10:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Landscape Planning Ltd Free Half Day Seminar AEC 01 Please find attached the details of our free half day seminar on 15th June 2012. The key points will be: • The New 2012 Tree Preservation Order Legislation. • The New 2012 BS Standard for Trees in Relation to Construction. • The New 2012 Arrangements Relating [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCA Climate Newsletter May 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 07:18:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[OCA Claims Climate Capacity Planning Newsletter May 2012 With the wettest April on record how have clay soils responded and what is the risk of a major event year?]]></description>
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		<title>Ecology Survey Periods &#8211; time is running out</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 13:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[April 2012 Protected species flyer If your scheme or site has protected species present and you have a demanding planning programme, remember once the season is over its 2013 before you can gather the data. See the attached]]></description>
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		<title>Britain on renewed flood alert after wettest April on record</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 07:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Lawson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of homes face a renewed risk of flooding after heavy rain lashed Britain overnight and this morning rounding off the wettest April since records began. More than 0.8in (20mm) of rain soaked some regions in the space of 12 hours as already-saturated river catchments neared bursting point – and more downpours are forecast for [...]]]></description>
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