Bizarre Easter Sunday trading laws are ripe for testing and desperately need reform say Britain's biggest garden centre bosses.
January GCA figures released in January saw garden centre sales up two per cent overall in 2010 after a snow-hit December. VAT increases from 17.5 per cent to 20 per cent came in on 31 January. Haskins spent 3m on its restaurant at Southampton. Which? And Garden Organic criticised garden...
January The industry responded favourably to the Government s consultation on the Sustainable Use Directive for the use of pesticides and parts of the regulation for placing plant protection products on the market. A Defra consultation outlining plans to phase out the commercial use of peat by...
January The Eden project s plans for a 20m power plant drawing natural heat from underground was passed by Cornwall Council. February The National Trust rejected the possibility of taking on responsibility for woodland managed by the Forestry Commission after the government announced...
January The Government announced that the Royal Parks Agency would become part of the Greater London Authority with management and power switched to the London mayor Boris Johnston Bristol City Council said it would sell off 41 green spaces under a 20-year parks and green spaces strategy....
January More than 60 landscape groups wrote to David Cameron urging the PM to give more political backing to the European Landscape Convention, developed to ensure greater protection and management of Europe s landscapes. Liverpool s Festival Gardens, one of the UK s most iconic international...
This is a summary of the presentation by NCF chair Bob Ivison at IoG Saltex on Thursday 8th September 2011.
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