A Committee of Public Accounts Report, published on 29 October 2025, raises concerns over ACCESSIBILITY FOR ELDERLY AND DISABLED PEOPLE and makes a number of Recommendations to the Department for Transport.

The Bus Services (No 2) Act has become law. Amongst other matters, it tightens requirements for cancelling routes empowers Councils to identify services as socially necessary, and lifts the ban on Councils setting up their own bus companies.

The UK Government has on 20 October 2025 published its Response to the Office for Environmental Protection’s Report on improving the natural environment in England from January 2025.

The Government has, on Bastille Day, issued a Report, with a spilt infinitive in is title “ Unlocking benefits for people, nature and climate : Actions to jointly address climate change and biodiversity loss in England.”

The Senedd has enacted its Visitor Accommodation ( Register and Levy ) etc ( Wales ) Bill, to ( 1 ) give Councils the choice to introduce, from 2027, following Consultation, a small VISITOR LEVY on overnight stays by adults, in order to raise funds all of which are to be reinvested in local TOURISM related expenses, and ( 2 ) introduce a national statutory free to enter REGISTER for all VISITOR ACCOMMODATION PROVIDERS in Wales, in order to support  policy development and decision-making. The Levy is the first local tax designed and legislated for in Wales.

When an individual has applied, under Section 184 of the Highways Act 1980, to construct a crossover, there is no legal obligation upon the highway authority to consult an adjacent neighbour or obtain their consent before constructing the crossover. Nor is there any breach of ECHR Article 1/1. So held in ANWAR v EALING LBC ( 2025 ) EWCA Civ 813.

A noise nuisance abatement notice was held to be valid in ENFIELD LBC v BECKFORD (2025) EWHC 1218. The notice did not have to specify the steps the recipient had to take. It was for the recipient to decide how to achieve the abatement.

In relation to the use by the public of a way over land, and limitation, in RAMBLERS ASSOCIATION v SoS ( 2025 ) EWHC 537 ( Admin ) the Court considers the meanings in Section 31 of the Highways Act 1980 of “actually enjoyed” and “interruption.”

A local authority had not been entitled under Regulation 12(4)(a) of the ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATION REGULATIONS to decline an Information Request for a List or Map of which roads would be subject to a new 20 mph speed limit on the ground that it did not “ hold “ the information. So held in ROBERTS v INFORMATION COMMISSIONER ( 2025 ) UK FTT 111 ( GRC ). The authority held the necessary information, albeit in a different format. Producing a list or map would not require any particular skill or judgment outside that found within its staff. Where information requested under the EIR or the FoIA could be produced only from raw data or building blocks through some processing or other operation, whether the information is “ held “ depends upon the complexity of the operations needing to be performed and the degree of skill and judgment necessary to if a particular building block should be regarded as contributing to the requested information.

A draft report relating to the Council’s environmental LOW TRAFFIC NEIGHBOURHOOD scheme was the subject matter of GREENWICH RLBC v INFORMATION COMMISSIONER ( 2025 ) UK FTT 85 ( GRC ). This remained a live and contentious issue at the time of the information request. There was the real possibility of litigation. It is held that a document does not have to be legally privileged to qualify for exemption from disclosure under EIR Reg 12(5)(b). The test is whether disclosure would adversely affect the course of justice ( paras 41 & 53 ). Moreover, LPP attaches to documents where the sole purpose is to seek legal advice, including such a document created before legal advice is sought ( paras 37-40 ). Also, Reg 12(4)(d) applied ( paras 44-53 inc  ), the purpose of which is to allow public authorities to think in private.