Managing the soft verge landscape around the motorway network presents opportunities as well as challenges to the bodies responsible for maintenance. Any vegetation management produces biomass that has hitherto presented disposal issues and consequentially such operations have been kept to a minimum. Over the years minimal management has allowed...
The 2017 report by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has just highlighted a worrying increase in the risk posed to many of the priorities of the government’s National Adaptation programme because “opportunities for modest, timely intervention to avoid long term problems are being overlooked”. The...