Spotlight: Key developments in Parliament and the top stories shaping the Energy, Development and Infrastructure sectors
5
June
2025
Author
Laura Kennedy
ENERGY
📰What implications will the UK-EU reset have for energy? | UK in a changing Europe
📰Trump takes aim at Starmer over net zero strategy | The Independent
📰’UK risks missing clean power target’ | ReNews
📰Research: Local authorities need help to prevent delaying net zero | Current News
📰UK confirms launch date for pivotal green power auction | Recharge News
📰 UK must award record 6GW in next wind auction | ReNews
📰UK solar capacity up 5.9% year-on-year | Solar Power Portal
📰 Calls for Drax to be forced to fully disclose its biomass sourcing | The Guardian
INFRASTRUCTURE
✒️Independent Water Commission Interim Report on water sector reform | Written statement from Steve Reed, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
🗣️EFRA Committee Chair comment on KKR’s withdrawal from plans to invest in Thames Water | UK Parliament
📰Drinking water shortage in decade without new reservoirs, minister says | BBC News
📰Government ‘seizes control’ of planning for two major reservoirs to fast-track process | New Civil Engineer (paywall)
📰 Ministers to fast-track London airspace redesign in push for growth | FT (paywall)
📰 UK Airspace Overhaul Sparks Climate Concerns | edie
📰‘Vital’ £15.6bn funding for regional transport including trams, metro lines, road connections | New Civil Engineer (paywall)
DEVELOPMENT
✒️Planning Reform Working Paper: Reforming Site Thresholds | Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government
📰 Labour MPs poised to rebel over planning bill amid concerns for nature | The Guardian
📰 Average wait for homebuilder infrastructure agreements increases to 515 days | PBC Today
📰 Government eyes introduction of biodiversity net gain for nationally significant infrastructure projects from May 2026 | Local Government Lawyer
📰 Defra opens BNG consultations | The Construction Index
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