Spotlight: Autumn Budget 2025, data centre policies and the latest in housing delivery data

AUTUMN BUDGET 2025

📰 Budget in brief: what you need to know | FT (paywall)

📰 Budget: Reaction as it happened | Local Government Chronicle

📰 Autumn Budget 2025: "Getting spades in the ground and cranes in the sky" | pbc today

📰 Budget reaction: ‘Reassurance that infrastructure remains powerful lever in UK growth mission’ | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

📰 Budget 2025: government confirms £48m to hire 350 extra planners | Building (paywall)

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ENERGY

✒️ Open letter to industry from Julian Leslie on Strategic Energy Planning | NESO

✒️North Sea Future Plan for fair, managed and prosperous transition | North Sea Transition Authority, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP

🗣 Solar industry welcomes legacy subsidy reform | Solar Energy UK

🗣 Britain’s expensive energy problem – with Claire Coutinho | The Spectator

📰 Chasing short-term savings could cost UK its clean energy future | Sustainable Views (paywall)

📰 SMEs face £100 a year cost rise as nuclear levy begins | Energy Live News

📰 UK most expensive place to develop nuclear power, report says | BBC News

📰 Study shows migratory birds avoid wind turbines | renews

📰 Survey Finds Growing Risk of UK Offshore Energy Supply Chain Relocating Overseas Due to Project Delays | Ocean News & Technology

📰 UK-engineered transformers driving offshore energy innovation | Rail UK

📰 Policymaker-led scenarios and public dialogue facilitate energy demand analysis for net-zero futures | Nature Energy

📰US solar stocks rebound from Trump’s clean energy rollback | Financial Times (paywall)

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INFRASTRUCTURE

✒️ UK infrastructure projects face five-month planning delays | New Start Mag

✒️ Data Centres: Environment Protection and Land | Written Answers by Kanishka Narayan Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Science, Innovation and Technology)

📰 Chancellor confirms appointment of infrastructure and planning adviser to clear path for new investments | Highways News  

📰National AI Data Facility to be developed in West of England | Public Sector News

📰 Government picks Heathrow’s £49bn third runway plan over cheaper rival option | Building

📰Road tunnels that would be the UK's longest win infrastructure planners' best project award | Planning resource (paywall)

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DEVELOPMENT

✒️ Planning Inspectorate Chief Executive announces new role and interim leadership | Press release from the Planning Inspectorate

🗣 Labour must be bold with new housing plans to help Britain move | Financial Times Adviser

📰 Urgent action is vital for the planning system to beat the blockers | The Planner

📰 Planning and Infrastructure Bill clears House of Lords and now set to gain Royal Assent | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 UK planning bill reaches endgame | reNews

📰 New homes delivery in England falls 6% year-on-year | Building (paywall)

📰 Leaked OBR report estimates net additions to top 300,000 annually by 2029/30 | Inside Housing

📰 62% of Britons do not like the idea of moving to new towns | pbc today

📰 Developer submits plan to build 283-acre technology park in Ipswich | Building (paywall)