Spotlight: Government approves the UK's largest solar farm as solar power generation record is broken twice in one week, Anglian Water to invest a record £1.6 billion in the East of England and seven council leaders urge the Government to speed up LGR

ENERGY

✒️ Government approves UK’s largest power-producing solar farm | Press release from Department for Energy and Net Zero and Michael Shanks MP

✒️ Hydrogen investment fuels South Yorkshire's next industrial era | Press release from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, The Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP and The Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP

✒️ Public engagement with the energy transition | Report from the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

📰 UK-focused flexible power platform Supernova Power launched | Energy Live News

📰 Wind and solar drive UK renewables past 50% for second consecutive year | Review Energy

🗣️ How is the UK Planning to Tackle The Global Energy Crisis? | Sustainability Magazine

🗣️ Industrialise small modular reactor delivery to help unlock a nuclear golden age | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

📰 New 'groundbreaking' project to use sustainable UK steel for wind turbine towers | Energy Live News

📰 New strategy to power offshore wind growth in North East England Energi Coast

📰 East Yorkshire and Tees Valley clean energy projects given £30m | BBC News

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INFRASTRUCTURE

✒️ New white paper: how nature-based solutions can future-proof infrastructure planning | Environment Analyst

📰 What Scotland's approach to infrastructure delivery can teach the rest of the UK | LBC

📰 Anglian Water sets out record £1.6 billion investment plans to upgrade the East of England’s water and sewerage infrastructure | Water Magazine

📰 Hybrid power approach unlocks data centre viability | Estates Gazette (paywall)

📰 ‘Value of data centres granted planning permission exceeds offices for the first time’ | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 STRABAG strengthens steelwork and infrastructure muscle with acquisition | Construction Wave

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DEVELOPMENT

📰 Places for People reveals joint venture with major house builder to deliver 8,500-home ‘garden town’ | Inside Housing (paywall)

📰 Origin Housing fully integrated into Places for People | Estates Gazette (paywall)

📰 Build-to-rent investment hits four-year high in first quarter | Green Street News (paywall)

📰 UK construction activity slumps as economic and geopolitical pressures continue | PBC Today

📰 Local elections 2026: A guide to London's 32 boroughs | BBC News

🗣️ Letter: Housing: call to arms from English City council leaders | Financial Times (paywall)

📰 Council leaders call for acceleration of reorganisation decisions | LocalGov

🗣️ Maidstone MP Helen Grant on the problems with over-development in the county | Kent Online

📰 Scotland’s housing emergency calls for strengthened council powers, COSLA says | LocalGov

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