Spotlight: NESO extensions, fusion energy and a £725 billion infrastructure pipeline

ENERGY

✒️ UKAEA renews engineering framework agreement for fusion energy | Press Release from UK Atomic Energy Authority

📰 NESO extends Gate 2 connections evidence window | reNews

📰Winds of change blowing for UK energy planning | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

📰Grid delays now rival planning as chief threat to project delivery | Construction Enquirer

📰 The rooftop revolution is just the beginning of the UK’s energy transition | Solar Power Portal

📰Renewables auction sets lower solar strike price, grid connection delays to be mitigated | Solar Power Portal

📰'We believe in a mix': Starmer defends UK energy policy after Trump wind farm criticism | Business Green (paywall)

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INFRASTRUCTURE

✒️ New pathway for sustainable growth in England’s industrial hubs | News article from Environment Agency

📰 Major UK port set to build new energy infrastructure terminal | 4C Offshore

✒️ Sovereignty, Security, Scale: A UK Strategy for AI Infrastructure | Report from the Tony Blair Institute

🗣️ How the UK’s £725 billion infrastructure vision is taking shape | Savills

🗣️Infrastructure Pipeline: A bold step forward or missed opportunity? | Partnerships Bulletin (paywall)

📰 Urgent overhaul of UK AI infrastructure needed, report warns | UKTN

📰 Scottish transport investment to power economic growth | Public Sector Executive

📰UK rail regulator approves new ‘open-access’ passenger services | Financial Times

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DEVELOPMENT

✒️ First-time buyers to benefit from 40,000 new homes on brownfield railway land | Press Release from Department for Transport, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Heidi Alexander MP and Angela Rayner MP

📰PINS to recruit ‘approximately 25%’ more inspectors to meet demands of government’s planning changes, agency says | Planning Resource (paywall)

🗣️ Yes, the grass is greener: lessons from research on international planning systems | Centre for Cities

📰 No shops, no schools’: homes in England built without basic amenities | The Guardian

📰 The Local Plan Forecast: When England’s busiest planning authorities predict they will hit key plan-making milestones | Planning Resource (paywall)

✒️Balfour Beatty unveils £7.2 million AI investment: transforming how Britain builds | Press release from Balfour Beatty