Spotlight: Clean energy jobs, data centres as major projects and Planning Bill pressure

ENERGY

✒️ Clean energy jobs boom to bring thousands of new jobs | Press release from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

📰UK unveils clean energy jobs blueprint | reNews

📰 Tony Blair says UK should drop clean power targets | Politico

📰 Ofgem backs penalty fee for slow-moving queued projects | Solar Power Portal

🗣️John Lamont MP: Impact of electricity infrastructure on rural communities | Westminster Hall Debate

📰 Majority of Brits worry UK will not meet 2050 Net Zero Target and want more support for renewables | Renewable Energy Magazine

📰Tory energy chief declines to say when Net Zero pledge might be met | The Independent

📰 Renewable Energy Institute and partners launch AI Centre for Energy Innovation and Technology to combat global climate change | EM Magazine

📰 UK confirms final AR7 timeline | reNews

📰 Conrad Energy secures consent for 18MW floating solar project | Solar & Storage Xtra

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INFRASTRUCTURE

📰 Regulations laid to bring 'nationally important' data centres into major infrastructure planning regime | Planning Resource (paywall)

🗣️ LGPS roundtable: Infrastructure investments in a changing world | GLIL Infrastrcture Roundtable Discussion

📰 Mary Coombs AI supercomputer set to power UK innovation | Innovation News Network

📰 Port electrification charged up by UK’s largest battery | Maritime Journal

📰 Transport Secretary launches review to fast-track Heathrow expansion | Travel Weekly

🗣️Opinion: Energy infrastructure will determine speed of green transition | Lamech Solomon, Head of Decarbonisation Policy at Logistics UK

📰 RIA's Station investment zones to boost UK communities | Global Railway Review

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DEVELOPMENT

✒️ Government asked to think again on Planning and Infrastructure Bill | Press release from UK Parliament

✒️ CG Fry: Supreme Court upholds application of Habitats Regulations at reserved matters and discharge of condition stage | Cornerstone Barristers

🗣️ Power to charge community infrastructure levy | English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill committee meeting

🗣️ It’s time for radical thinking to deliver the new homes that the UK needs | Inside Housing

🗣️ The Housing Forum calls for housing sector support in next Autumn Budget | PBC Today

📰 Housing developer levy funds fail to reach local communities due to systemic problems | PBC Today

📰 L&G reveals £2bn investment package that will target 10,000 new homes | Inside Housing

📰 Will the expected London housebuilding package rescue the stalled development industry? | Building (paywall)

📰 Low planning application figures threaten UK growth prospects | The Telegraph (paywall)

📰 ‘Urgent’ work needed to ensure long-term survival of new towns, ex-government commission chief warns | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 Chancellor announces UK construction business blitz to cut red tape | PBC Today

📰 Building Safety Regulator commits to clear Gateway 2 applications by 2026 | PBC Today