Spotlight: Government announces largest homes upgrade in British history, introduces an overhaul of UK water systems and new design guidance for new build developments

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ENERGY

🗣 Labour's oil and gas problem | Greg Quinn OBE for Energy Voice

📰 UK moves to extend life of Sizewell B nuclear plant by 20 years | Financial Times (paywall)

📰 UK walks the offshore wind price tightrope | Recharge

✒️ Families to save in biggest home upgrade plan in British history | Press release from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP and The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP

📰 UK households to get £15bn for solar and green tech to lower energy bills | BBC News

📰 UK GBP-15bn Warm Homes Plan to back solar, batteries | Renewables Now

📰 UK battery storage development market moves from speculation to execution | Energy Storage News

✒️ Interconnectors deliver billions in benefits to Brits | Press release from National Grid

📰 Trump has growing stranglehold over EU and UK energy supply, study shows | The Guardian

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INFRASTRUCTURE

✒️ Government unveils biggest overhaul to water in a generation | Press release from Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and Emma Reynolds MP

📰 Water White Paper to overhaul UK water system | Planning, Building & Construction Todayeie

📰 UK water companies to face ‘no notice’ checks as part of pollution crackdown | edie

📰 Thames Water issues £5.7bn tender notice for nationally significant reservoir build - Water Magazine | Water Magazine

📰 Lighthouse - Fixing the pinch points to achieve the government’s infrastructure goals | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

📰 Building greener highways: How circular innovation is reshaping the future of UK infrastructure | Highways News

📰 UK authorities warn of pro-Russia groups targeting critical infrastructure, local government | Cyber Security Dive

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DEVELOPMENT

✒️New design guidance to raise the bar for new build developments | Press release from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Matthew Pennycook MP

🗣 New Towns, House of Commons debate | Katrina Murray MP marked the 80th anniversary of the New Towns Act 1946 and the potential of New Town development

📰 40% affordable housing for new towns an ‘aspiration’, says minister | The Planner (paywall)

📰 New Town properties at risk of ‘severe’ aviation disruption, analysis says | Local Gov

📰 ‘The cliff edge has probably been reached’ … When the Warm Homes Plan finally arrives, will there be an industry left to deliver it? | Building

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