• Residents in a mining village in Nottinghamshire were concerned about an opencast mine nearby. The site should have been restored to agriculture, but instead an application for landfill had been made. They contacted Planning Aid to ask for help concerning the lack of adherence to the ...more...

A retired resident on the Lincolnshire coast contacted Planning Aid due to her concern surrounding the extension of an existing Civic Amenity Site for domestic rubbish disposal in the draft County Waste Disposal Plan. She strongly suspected that if the plan was adopted that an expansion to the tip ...more...

For some people it never rains but it pours.A client recently contacted EMPAS for help. He had been made bankrupt, apparently through no fault of his own, and as a consequence had to sell his home. His daughter offered him the summerhouse in her garden, so he installed a bathroom and kitchen and ...more...