A long time ago I wrote a report about development at Aston Down near Minch - see it here - it looked at the site to see if it was a sustainable development opportunity or an unsuitable site for development in 55 hectares (136 acres) of an Area Of Natural Beauty(AONB) - it was an eye-opener for me - and I learnt a lot about how Council's work - well that was 4 years ago - the issue has now come

• Threatened site is one of the most efficient • Proposed atomic plant backed by government One of the oldest and most efficient wind farms in Britain is to be dismantled and replaced by a nuclear power station under plans drawn up by the German-owned power group RWE. The site at Kirksanton in Cumbria - home to the Haverigg turbines - has just been approved by the government for potentia...

Gordon Brown will welcome plans for a new nuclear power station at Sellafield during a visit to the site today, Downing Street has said. The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) will announce its willingness to provide land for the building of two nuclear power stations on land adjacent to the Sellafield site. As well as the plans for Sellafield, the NDA is also announcing the nominations of Wy...

The local papers said that I would be meeting the campaigners against the London Newcastle development on the site of the old Freemasons pub on Lordship Lane. And indeed they came to see me that very day. Thus proving that what you read in the papers is true! The application was for A1/A2/A3 designation on the site and Haringey had already refused planning permission. London Newcastle had appealed...

This is fun: The development of the Olympic site in east London after the Games have finished could be in jeopardy because of radioactive waste buried beneath the site, experts have warned. The actual thing seems to be: In July 2008, the ODA told the Environment Agency that it had found 40 cubic metres, about

The announcement that High Speed 2, the fast rail route from London to Birmingham and beyond, is to be built with a station at Old Oak Common in Hammersmith and Fulham means the prospect of a Crossrail station at Kensal Gasworks in North Kensington is very much in doubt, say Labour Councillors. The site selected for the HS2 station, near Park Royal, will be a major new transport hub. This is not o...

I'll be coming back to the New Labour List site, as Derek Draper has kindly agreed to do an email interview with me about the site in the next couple of days and I'm thinking up the relevant questions. In the meantime, I like that he is displaying a sense of humour, and note that there are still some bits of fluff to pick off the site. My favourite currently is the title of the website a...

There is little doubt that the site supposedly registered at Ieuan Wyn Jones' office address is a Labour attack site, a site designed specifically in order to enable Chris Bryant to repeat, under Parliamentary privilege, the slur that Plaid is a Tory stooge, which seems to be the Westminster Labour Party's main attack weapon against Plaid in the forthcoming Assembly Election. Look at the

As from today this site becomes not just www.johnredwood.com but also the regulated site of John Redwood, Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Wokingham. The main site will continue unchanged, whilst the materials for the Wokingham election will normally appear on the local issues pages. The whole site is being treated as an election expense and will

The Labour Party has unveiled a newly designed website in time for its annual conference. The website incorporates much of what already existed, such as Labour:Central and Labour:Vision, but also has new features such as local news and items available to be added to your own site. Visit Labour’s new site.