For an Atlantic-facing island with an international reputation for grey skies, frequent showers and soaking rain, the UK must come to terms with the surprising challenge of managing its wet stuff very carefully over the next few decades … or risk running out of guaranteed...
There are important long and short-term reasons for taking early steps to protect exposed properties from rising sea levels, river flooding, saturated ground, damaged culverts, and other local surface and sub-surface flood vulnerability problems. Location and circumstances are clearly crucial in any flood risk assessment, as...
Murray Graham, Associate Director of Planning at Enzygo, considers the benefits of the walkable cities and embracing the 15-20-minute neighbourhood concept and how we can help them become a reality. Climate change is here, congestion is here, social problems and inequality are here. We need to...
What have soils - one of our greatest and most wide-spread resources – done for us? The answer is a great deal. And they now hold solutions to many of our modern environmental challenges. Which is why I think as an environmental consultant that a close look...
Warnings that gas supplies could be cut again by Christmas 2022 makes the UK’s 2017 decision to close its main gas storage facility because of high repair costs seem unfortunate. But there are many alternatives we could eventually turn to in an era of great...
Rising sea levels could flood nuclear reactors around the world with catastrophic consequences, some experts warn. Fortunately, our site screening skills can identify dangers and opportunities at an early planning stage on projects of all sizes to avoid the worst impacts and minimise others. And size...
Rob Gandy, Senior Planning Consultant at Enzygo, looks at the growth of commercial battery storage facilities in the UK. Battery storage, or battery energy storage systems (BESS), are devices that enable energy from renewables, like solar and wind, to be stored and then released, or draw...
Nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) are nutrients essential for plant growth, but too much nutrient in runoff from land into waterbodies can cause excessive plant and algae growth (‘eutrophication’). Phosphorus is the most important nutrient in freshwater systems. This biological response can then result in dramatic...
Two highly-strategic documents recently highlighted major energy threats we now face … plus action needed urgently to avoid chaos. Fortunately, UK energy storage capacity doubled in the last year. I think this represents an important solution in an area where we already have a proven...
Verena Meyer, Principal Arboriculturist and Landscape Architect at Enzygo Ltd, says we should try to change the way we are thinking about trees on development sites. Since its first publication in 1980, British Standard 5837 has done a lot for trees on prospective development sites in...