Spotlight: Great British Energy signs contract with Rolls-Royce to deliver the UK's first small modular reactors, DfT opens £1 billion package to enhance bridges and tunnels while further pressure is added to Labour's housing targets

ENERGY

✒️Great British Energy - Nuclear and Rolls-Royce SMR sign contract | Press release form Great British Energy – Nuclear

✒️ UKAEA unveils 2026-2030 fusion roadmap | Press release from UK Atomic Energy Authority and Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

✒️ Development Consent Granted for Outer Dowsing Offshore Wind Farm | Press release from the Marine Management Organisation

✒️ Summer Outlook 2026 | Report from NESO

📰 Planning Inspectorate completes Green Hill Solar Farm review | BBC News

📰 Elgin wins £500 million backing for 1GW UK solar pipeline | Solar Power Portal

📰 £85m funding boost announced for green energy firm | BBC News

INFRASTRUCTURE

✒️ Fixing the foundations: government fund to fix England's bridges, flyovers and tunnels now open | Press release from Department for Transport

📰 OpenAI shelves multi-billion pound UK data centre project citing energy costs | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

📰 Data centre growth triggers logistics expansion | Estates Gazette

📰 Arcadis warns UK megaproject delays threaten infrastructure growth | Press release from Arcadis

📰 Offshore wind to power Britain's railways | Recharge

📰 UK economy faces £90m-a-day losses from flooded electricity substations | Water Magazine

📰 £2.1 million secured to fund River Trent catchment restoration following pollution investigations | Water Magazine

📰 Shortlist for new GBR HQ down to final two Derby locations | Rail UK

📰 Plans to change HS2 train size could reduce capacity and speed in north, says expert | The Guardian

DEVELOPMENT

✒️ Councils backed with millions to tackle rogue landlords | Press release from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

✒️ Who benefits from ‘Help to Buy’ schemes? | Research paper from the Institute for Fiscal Studies

📰 How Barratt Redrow is building the UK’s biggest net-zero carbon neighbourhood | Construction Management (paywall)

📰 UK’s largest housebuilder to buy less land, in blow to Labour’s homes target | The Guardian

📰 Lib Dems call for GP guarantee on new housing developments | BBC News

📰 Supply of London rental homes down due to planning delays | Green Street News (paywall)

📰 Low Carbon Construction plans to deliver one million homes backed by LSE listing | Business Insider

📰 Lidl to open over 50 stores over the next 12 months | The Standard

📰 Rising housing costs keep one in 10 Brits in shared homes, data reveals | The Intermediary

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