Spotlight: New NSIP planning guidance, heatwave power supply warning and potential Scotland data centre freeze

ENERGY

✒ Statement from ESNZ Committee Chair on the future of UK oil and gas | Energy Security and Net Zero Committee

✒ Government approves UK’s second largest solar farm | Press release from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Ed Miliband MP

🗣️ The UK needs a whole systems approach to plug the electricity gap | Edie

📰 Great Britain’s grid operator issues fresh warning over power supplies in heatwave | The Guardian

📰 Miliband to launch giant green energy subsidy campaign | The Telegraph

📰 ‘More public control’: what will Burnham do about water and energy? | The Guardian

📰 What’s holding back Britain’s green revolution? – a visual story | The Guardian  

📰 Offshore wind needs 5% of UK’s waters to support 125GW target | Energy Voice (paywall)

📰 Ofgem approves rule changes for UK frequency response markets | ESS News

📰 NESO whistleblower flags grid stability ‘scandal’ | Energy Voice (paywall)

📰 SGE-led team targets 14 BWRX-300 SMRs in UK | World Nuclear News  

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INFRASTRUCTURE

✒ Fastest infrastructure building in a generation as planning rules overhauled | Press release from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government  

✒ Amended national policy statement for ports | Written Statement, Department for Transport

📰 Revised NPS for ports includes stronger presumption in favour of port DCO approvals | New Civil Engineer (paywall)  

🗣️ Will UK Gov Planning Reforms Speed Up Data Centre Delivery? | Data Centre Magazine  

📰 Revealed: landmark Scottish AI project has no prospect of meeting renewables promise | The Guardian

📰 Scotland could freeze data centre projects | The Guardian

📰 Growth of AI infrastructure drives job creation in UK construction | PBC Today

📰 Industry unites to warn new PM against more infrastructure cuts | Construction Enquirer News

📰 Making public transport fully accessible ‘could boost UK economy by £176bn’ | The Guardian  

📰 ‘Nowhere to hide’ for offending water companies as faster penalties introduced | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

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DEVELOPMENT

✒ Multi-million pound regeneration and housing boost for communities across England as National Housing Bank announces new deals | News story from National Housing Bank and Homes England

🗣️ Kate Pix from Avison Young on why devolution gives long-term stability | Property Week

🗣️ Will Garton from MHCLG confirms delayed response on future devolution map | LGC

📰 Half of affordable new homes in rural England could be at risk if planning rules relaxed, analysis shows | The Guardian

📰 Peering into the future of Total Place | The MJ  

📰 MTVH secures £250M funding package from NatWest | BE News

📰 Too hot to handle: London’s economy suffers in heatwave | The Standard

📰 Labour losing votes as ‘direct consequence’ of housing policy, London Assembly member says | Inside Housing  

📰 Vistry shares plunge on warning over first-half losses | The Standard

📰 TPG bags £100M loan for outdoor storage portfolio expansion | BisNow  

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