Spotlight: Government unveils Advanced Nuclear Framework and a new Transport and Infrastructure campus in West Midlands, while NESO's transitional regional plan is published and reforms to the NPPF are proposed

ENERGY

✒️ Government to unlock advanced nuclear to grow economy | Press release from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Lord Vallance

🗣️ Advanced Nuclear Framework | Michael Shanks MP, Minister for Energy

✒️ NESO publishes first-of-a-kind transitional Regional Energy Strategic Plan | NESO

📰 NESO rewires UK – New regional plan outlines big changes to the electricity distribution system | Energy Live News

✒️ New North Sea board launched to drive a fair and prosperous transition | Press release from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Michael Shanks MP

📰 UK expands Clean Industry Bonus | reNews

📰 UK government confirms immediate CPI indexation switch for Renewables Obligation and Feed-in-Tariff schemes | Osbource Clarke

📰 UK solar forecast to grow 50% YoY again in 2026 | Solar Power Portal

📰 UK sets new monthly wind generation record | Business Green (paywall)

📰 EU wants millions from UK to rejoin electricity market | Energy Live News

📰 UK-China Trade and the Renewable Supply Chain | Supply Chain Magazine

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INFRASTRUCTURE

✒️ West Midlands to become Government centre for Transport and Infrastructure with new Campus to accelerate regional growth and delivery | Press release from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and the Department for Transport

📰 Sewage pollution crackdown and lower bills in major water shake-up | BBC News

🗣️ AI growth depends on more than power: The UK must plan for water | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

📰 Why is Slough full of data centres? | BBC News

📰 New Advanced Nuclear Framework to power AI | PBC Today

📰 Government officials outline how new NSIP regime will help overcome ‘familiar challenges’ | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

📰 Rail Forum launches 3rd edition of UK Rail Manufacturing Capability Brochure | Rail Business Daily

📰 PIC publishes infrastructure investment report | Professional Pensions (paywall)

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DEVELOPMENT

✒️ New regeneration body to boost jobs, homes and infrastructure across Greater Cambridge | Press release from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, James Murray MP and Matthew Pennycook MP

✒️ National Planning Policy Framework: proposed reforms and other changes to the planning system (updates) | Open consultation by Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

📰 Submission of ‘insufficient or incorrect’ information is top cause of planning application delays, finds MHCLG research | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 Planning reform alone will not fix the UK’s housing crisis, warns Propertymark | The Intermediary

📰 UK concrete sales hit 75-year low as housebuilding stalls | The Times (paywall)

📰 NatWest sets out £10bn funding ambition for social housing sector | Inside Housing (paywall)

📰 Council, developers and landowners unite for 40,000-home Milton Keynes New Town Partnership | Showhouse

📰 Why New Housing Developments UK Wide can Support Nature | 24 Housing

📰 Luxury Developer discusses London’s Complacent Capital | Bisnow

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