Business
Sixty retail CEOs, including Aldi, Asda, Boots, Tesco, B&Q, Co-op, Kingfisher, Dobbies, Wickes, and trade associations such as the British Retail Consortium and the Horticultural Trades Association, urge the Chancellor to take action.
Regulation
The government announced the suspension of extra border checks on plant goods from Ireland ahead of the new Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) deal with the EU.
Business
The prolonged hot and dry weather has severely affected the horticultural industry, underscoring the urgent need for long-term water resilience measures, beyond short-term crisis interventions like flood and drought relief.
Media
Never, has ‘read the small print’ been more appropriate in today’s exponential whirlwind of algorithms and implementation of artificial intelligence functionalities used by Big Tech.
Gardens
Last weekend’s news reported a concerning story that the Deputy Prime Minister granted councils the authority to sell allotments to finance spending.
Regulation
Armed police arrested a gardener returning from his Manchester allotment on account of his gardening tools, which were mistaken for weapons.
Regulation
The Employment Rights Bill has reached its conclusion in the House of Lords, with a series of amendments having been mutually agreed upon.
Natural Capital
Research reveals the scale of current claimed exemptions, raising concerns for the intended nature recovery and viability of the biodiversity unit market if BNG requirements are removed for small sites.
Regulation
EU Relations Minister, Nick Thomas-Symonds met New Covent Garden Market traders in London to talk about the import and export issues faced since 2020.
Environment
Effective on Friday, Yorkshire will be the first UK county to implement water usage restrictions due to the prolonged period of dry weather.
Regulation
Defra’s £150m in capital funds cover a wide range of on-farm projects, such as tree planting, flood prevention and water filtration to help farmer profitability and the environment.
Regulation
The Department for Business and Trade confirmed that some of the more contentious measures would not come in for at least two years.
Economy
The Government has launched its new trade strategy which aims to boost UK services exports and strengthen anti-dumping defences to protect the country from the global tariff wars.
Gardens
London Parks and Gardens welcomes assistance from Europe’s largest civil society heritage network to resolve the Victoria Tower Gardens deadlock.
Regulation
The Horticultural Trades Association warns that proposed reforms to inheritance tax will cost 1,300 sector jobs, slash investment and drain treasury tax revenues.
Regulation
A breakfast briefing, organised by the Environmental Horticulture Group relayed the importance of the UK’s environmental horticulture and landscape sector, as well as the key challenges and opportunities relevant to policy considerations.
Regulation
The Prime Minister confirmed a new agreement with the European Union promises improved alignment on sanitary and phytosanitary, including plants.
Regulation
Timed ahead of the London Summit and the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, the HTA highlights the crucial opportunity to ease trade burdens.
Regulation
Anti Copying in Design Chair & Co-founder, Dids Macdonald OBE, joined representatives from the creative industries ahead of the Report Stage of the Data (and Users) Bill in the House of Commons.
Environment
Hosted at the Garden Museum in London, a live-broadcast panel on the future of urban and rural green spaces took place, focusing on the proposed Green Spaces Bill.
