Spotlight: Clean Energy, infrastructure projects, and a five-year building low

ENERGY

📰 Government support for private solar investment in the UK | Solar Power Portal

📰 UK plans scheme to suck CO₂ from the air | The Times (paywall)

✒️ Clean Energy Industries Sector Plan | Policy paper from the Department for Business and Trade and Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

📰 NESO offers extra week for Gate 2 applications | reNews

✒️2,800 skilled jobs in Wales and North West as CCUS industry grows | Press release from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

🗣️Will offshore wind energy affect ocean productivity? | The University of Southampton

📰 'Another vital piece of the jigsaw' comes together for first UK-Germany energy link - Offshore Energy | Offshore Energy

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INFRASTRUCTURE

🗣️ Pipe dreams: Why the infrastructure pipeline must improve if construction is to benefit | Building Magazine

📰 Ofwat pushes for accelerated water infrastructure projects to drive UK economic growth | Smart Water Magazine

📰 Ofwat’s Chief Executive David Black to stand down | Water Magazine

✒️ Rail boost for the North: Transpennine upgrade one step closer | Press Release from Department for Transport and The Rt Hon Heidi Alexander MP

🗣️‘We’re falling behind’: Heathrow expansion sparks backlash over UK’s ‘outdated’ travel infrastructure | Independent

📰 British intelligence warns cyber threat to critical infrastructure is increasing | The Record

📰 Infrastructure Leads UK Construction Growth Amidst Ongoing Challenges | Roofing Today

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DEVELOPMENT

📰 Delays at regulator pose the ‘primary bottleneck’ to UK construction | Financial Times (paywall)

📰 UK construction activity in July falls at steepest rate since Covid | The Guardian

📰 Building hits five-year low in blow to Labour’s planning blitz | The Telegraph (paywall)

📰 New AI tool ‘drastically’ reduces time spent summarising consultation responses, councils say | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 Platform Housing Group partners with Future Homes Hub to support net zero target | The Intermediary

📰 Inside Housing - News - New report claims Bank of England policy is suppressing social homes delivery | Inside Housing