Spotlight: Government removes tariffs on industrial goods vital for offshore wind construction and DESNZ announces reforms for grid connection requests, while £718 billion is unveiled for the Infrastructure Pipeline and plan-making regulations announced

ENERGY

✒️ UK manufacturers to save millions of pounds a year as government removes offshore wind energy tariffs | Press release from Department for Business and Trade and Sir Chris Bryant MP

✒️ Government to tackle speculative demand grid connection requests | Press release from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, Ofgem, National Energy System Operator, Kanishka Narayan MP and Michael Shanks MP

📰 UK maps out £365bn renewable energy infrastructure blitz | Energy Voice (paywall)

📰 Analysis: Why clean energy will cut UK gas imports by more than North Sea drilling | Carbon Brief

📰 Firm grid dates begin to emerge for UK solar development | Solar Power Portal

📰 Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’ | The Guardian

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INFRASTRUCTURE

✒️ Infrastructure Pipeline update signals future workforce needs | Press release from National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority

📰 Updated UK Infrastructure Pipeline tops £700bn and gives granular data for workforce planning | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

📰 Britain’s infrastructure is only as strong as the ground beneath | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

📰 Prioritising AI data centres could block new homes, builders warn | BBC News

📰 The tangled web of data centre development | Estates Gazette (paywall)

📰 Datadog to launch UK data centre for regulated cloud | Data Center News UK

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DEVELOPMENT

✒️ New plan-making system: regulations and content roadmap | Press release from the Planning Inspectorate and Matthew Pennycook MP

✒️ Action plan launched to build stronger communities | Press release from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and The Rt Hon Steve Reed MP

✒️ Rebecca Phillips appointed as Chief Planning Inspector | Press release from the Planning Inspectorate

📰 Public register will require developers in England and Wales to declare land options | Financial Times (paywall)

📰 UK leasehold reform: What’s changing and why it matters | PBC Today

📰 London council seeks partners for 52,000-home development pipeline | Inside Housing (paywall)

📰 UK sports and entertainment property boom looks for investors | Bisnow

📰 Reform UK names ex-interim chair of Homes England as housing and infrastructure spokesperson | Housing Today

📰 Comedian Steve Coogan plans to ‘disrupt’ established regeneration models with new people-led development corporation | Inside Housing (paywall)

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