House byline
Environment correspondent
Fiona MacLeod is a house byline for InfoHandle’s Environment desk.
Defra will convene the Met Office, Environment Agency and industry leaders this week after forecasts pointed to a wetter-than-average autumn and a record-strong El Niño peak.
The Ministry of Defence told the Planning Inspectorate that 23 turbines on Hope Moor would blind RAF radars at Brizlee Wood and Leeming, adding national security to a bitter moorland planning fight.
A burst main left homes and schools without water from Wimbledon to Esher on Monday morning; engineers located the leak but warned repairs in congested streets could take hours.
Ofwat sent Thames Water a draft enforcement package proposing a nine-figure penalty after annual storm-overflow returns showed hundreds of permit breaches across London and the Thames Valley, with customers facing bill uncertainty while investors weigh a special administration path.
Cheshire Wildlife Trust fenced a brine-saturated field beside a historic salt mine after wading birds began nesting in contaminated runoff, working with the Environment Agency on pumping tests.