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Climate & Environment
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CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT
Exeter City Council recycling rate among lowest in country
Exeter City Council’s recycling rate was ranked among the bottom tenth of councils in England which collect household waste last year.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT
Environment Agency orders South West Water to fix scores of faults
South West Water has been ordered by the the Environment Agency to fix scores of faults including leaking pipes, cracked tanks, seeping liquids and faulty monitoring equipment.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT
Exeter Port And Harbour business plan published without future budgets
Exeter City Council has finally published an Exeter Port And Harbour business plan after repeated requests from river and estuary users to see the document, which was apparently prepared three years ago.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT
South West Water admits Brixham drinking water contamination offences
South West Water has admitted criminal offences relating to the contamination of drinking water in Brixham in 2024.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT
Storm damage prompts Bowling Green Marsh emergency works
Significant storm damage has prompted emergency works to shore up the bank separating the Exe estuary from the Bowling Green Marsh nature reserve at Topsham.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENT
Botched consultation restarted on sale of 8.5 acres of Riverside Valley Park green space
Council land disposal to include rights to lay underground distribution pipework across River Exe floodplain following “low-to-zero carbon” Grace Road Fields heat plant planning approval in face of Environment Agency sequential test concerns.
