Agrivoltaics: Synergizing Solar Power and Agriculture for a Sustainable Future As the world faces the dual challenges of combating climate change and ensuring food security, innovative solutions are emerging to tackle both issues simultaneously. One such solution is agrivoltaics — the integration of solar power generation with agricultural production. This…...

The Bioeco Camp in Reims will kick off with a conference on sustainable agriculture and innovation, featuring experts discussing climate challenges and technological opportunities.

Bioeconomy For Change outlines a series of events focused on innovative practices and sustainability in the bioeconomy sector through late 2025.

A holistic approach to masterplanning which takes the existing environmental parameters as its base and delivers a scheme around this. Mark Topping, Director of Design, Lanpro Any new development, and particularly an energy scheme, is at its best when it works in harmony with the natural environment, and yet many…

Jane Crichton, Associate Planning Director, Lanpro Within a week of last year’s general election, the then new government approved three new solar farms, at Mallard Pass, Rutland and Lincolnshire, Sunnica in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, and Gate Burton in Lincolnshire. The projects could create a total power of 1.4GW – enough…

Environment led multi-disciplinary planning consultancy Lanpro has secured acceptance for a Development Consent Order (DCO) application on behalf of Island Green Power (IGP) for Green Hill Solar Farm in the East Midlands. Located to the west and south of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and north of Milton Keynes, the proposed circa 1200-hectare…

Alice James, Technical Director (Historic Environment), Lanpro Development-led archaeology plays a vital role in helping communities to record and understand their shared cultural heritage, while also providing a necessary planning service to developers. And significantly, from an environmental point of view, modern methods of archaeological surveyors are becoming increasingly energy…

Lanpro has appointed Diane Ellis as a Regional Director to lead its Manchester office.  The multi-disciplinary consultancy offers planning, EIA, masterplanning, urban design, GIS, visualisation, historic environment, landscape architecture, ecology and arboriculture consultancy services, nationwide from seven offices. In her role at Lanpro, Diane will focus on growing the Manchester…

Introduction to Renewable Energy in 2024 As we progress through 2024, renewable energy continues to assert itself as a pivotal component in the global transition towards sustainable energy systems. With increasing climate-related challenges, the emphasis on renewables such as photovoltaics, wind power, bioenergy, and hydropower has gained unprecedented urgency. This…

Wednesday 27 November 2024 – Global renewable energy company, Low Carbon, has today announced that a portfolio of four Dutch solar farms with a renewable energy capacity of 53 MW have become fully operational. The four assets including Ter Apel (26.7 MW) in the province of Groningen, Overijssel (7.4 MW)…