Spotlight: Ofgem to invest in fast-track projects, climate-ready infrastructure and more housing policy announcements

✒️ Housebuilding around train stations will be given default “yes” | Press release from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, The Rt Hon Steve Reed OBE MP and The Rt Hon Rachel Reeves MP

📰 National development management policies will be non-statutory and published with updated NPPF before Christmas, Reed confirms | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 UK government’s housebuilding target under threat as councils face exodus of planners | Financial Times (paywall)

📰 Reed ‘to order councils to refer all 150-home-plus applications to him’, reports claim | Planning Resource

📰 Housing market in “crisis” according to government data | pbc today

📰 Nature is not a blocker to housing growth, MPs find | BBC News

📰 Safeguarded housing land released ahead of delayed plan review | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 Government publishes new guidance on the disposal of public sector land | LGL

📰 Are construction frameworks locking out SMEs? | pbc today

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