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  1. The Guardian | UK looks to relax planning rules for factory farms after industry lobbying by Zach Boren

    Exclusive: documents chronicle years-long campaign to make it easier to build intensive livestock units

    Ministers are rewriting planning rules to make it easier to build intensive livestock farms despite concerns about water pollution, air quality and local opposition.

    Documents obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act show that proposed changes to the national planning policy framework (NPPF) were discussed by ministers and officials in response to concerns of the country’s leading chicken producers, who have been lobbying on the issue for at least two years.

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    Read more: theguardian.com/environment/20

    #pollution #UK #planningrules #factoryfarms

  2. For those interested in such things, code and extracted data for the 2024 Timetable Planning Rules (networkrail.co.uk/industry-and) data, including useable platform length in metres, is here (github.com/anisotropi4/TPR/rel)

    Timetable Planning Rules are used to regulate the standard timings between stations and junctions together with other matters enabling trains to be scheduled into the working timetable for the various parts of the main rail network.


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  3. CW: Solving the childcare shortage in Dublin city

    To help solve the city's childcare shortage, it's time to change planning rules, a council report says. Current guidelines make it too easy for developers to build homes without enough viable spaces for childcare providers to operate creches in, it says.
    dublininquirer.com/2022/11/09/
    #Dublin #Ireland #Childcare #Creche #PlanningRules