The National Planning Framework 4 was formally adopted in February in Scotland, banning new sites and extensions of commercial peat extraction sites apart from in very limited circumstances. However, in 2021, Scotland still supplied 300,000 m3 of peat used in the…
The Scottish government recently published its draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan, mapping out the future of Scotland’s energy sector with an ambitious suite of actions for the Scottish government, industry, the energy regulator, and also the UK government.…
The Scottish government recently published its draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan, mapping out the future of Scotland’s energy sector with an ambitious suite of actions for the Scottish government, industry, the energy regulator, and also the UK government.…
ScotGov have issued a consultation on their proposed Agriculture Bill. The consultation covers a wide range of topics such as payments to land managers, climate change adaptations and mitigations, nature protection and restoration, food production, skills and knowledge transfers, administration,…
Aqua Enviro are working alongside WRAP to explore several aspects of plastic residues in digestate and compost, and are asking for the industry's view on a potential change to plastic limits in PAS110 digestates in England. Scotland has far…
On 12 November, Scottish Government announced its decision to tighten controls on slurry and digestate storage and application following a 12 week consultation period earlier this year. This is another example of the increasing body of regulations being rolled out…
On 7th September 2020 the Scottish Government published information on the SACGS on the Rural Payments and Services website. The Agricultural Transformation Programme (ATP) was announced in Programme for Government 2019-2020 to promote changes in the Scottish Agricultural sector to meet…
The Scottish Government is consulting on its Local Energy Policy and ADBA's is be feeding in to make sure AD is part of the solution! But we want to hear from you to make sure we're representing the views of…
With the UK Government and Parliament currently paralysed, it can be easy to forget that in Scotland, the devolved government is relatively stable, and has recently produced its Programme for Government for the next year. This contained several policy proposals…
On the back of The Scottish Energy Strategy, published in December 2017, The potential contribution of bioenergy to Scotland’s energy system report forms one of the first steps in the development of the bioenergy action plan. It sets out the…
