As the dust settles on the outcomes of local elections throughout the country, politicians, the public and businesses are left to consider the implications of a catastrophic but largely predictable result for the Government.

Lionheart Public Affairs Managing Director, Richard Royal, was recently invited to be a guest speaker at the Waterfront Conference Company's event entitled 'What does effective consultation look like?"

The appeal to ‘re-energise’ the Humber has been outlined in a letter sent this week from the Humber Energy Board to Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, co-signed by 30 supportive businesses and organisations from across the region

The Labour conference in Liverpool this week has been a clear demonstration of the transition from a party of opposition to a party in power.

This former coal mining site in Durham will been brought back into public energy use after approval for use as a solar farm. Lionheart Public Affairs supported on stakeholder engagement activity for this project. [From Solar Power Portal, written by Lena Dias Martins] Durham County Council has granted planning permission for a new 49.9MW solar farm to be built on a former coal mining site in Durham. A planning application was submitted in February 2023 outlining Bluefield Dev

The Government’s recently published Levelling Up white paper rightly focused on skills as one of the key focus areas for ‘missions’ to increase opportunities and deliver a highly trained workforce in regions such as the Humber It builds upon previous references in Government policy documents to the importance of this issue, although just as important is local supply chain development – mentioned on multiple occasions in last year’s Energy white paper but largely overlooked by

Friday 21st January marked the deadline for submissions into the Second Phase of the BEIS ‘Cluster Sequencing Process’, with a number of Humber-based hydrogen and carbon capture projects put forward for Government to select the first mover projects within the successful Phase One regions of Humber, Teesside and Merseyside. The strength of projects from this region is a testament to the Humber’s industrial importance and demonstrates the diversity and optionality that no other

Read the full article on the Yorkshire Post here. Overly-attentive motorists refuelling their vehicles at service stations in recent weeks might have noticed a subtle change to petrol pump labels – a new ‘E10’ logo. If so, they might be wondering what this means and what difference it makes to their motoring. The ‘E’ in E10 represents ‘ethanol’, an alcohol which can also be used as a fuel, and was actually one of the first ever vehicle fuels, powering the Model-T Ford and oth

Lionheart Public Affairs is delighted to add solar energy to its noteworthy list of low carbon projects. It will be working on stakeholder engagement for planning applications for solar sites in the North and Midlands from March 2021. This builds on over a decade's experience of managing stakeholder engagement, community consultation and political liaison on planning applications including for onshore windfarms, energy-from-waste sites and other renewable energy projects. We