Spotlight: Onshore wind strategy, grid reform and regional transport pgrades

ENERGY

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✒ Onshore Wind Taskforce Strategy | Policy paper from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

✒️ New plan to kickstart onshore wind revolution | Press release from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Michael Shanks MP

✒️ Government sets out reforms to create a fair, secure, affordable and efficient electricity system | Press release from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Ed Miliband MP

✒️ Gridlock or Growth? ESNZ Committee sets out measures to end ‘energy planning chaos’ and unlock cleaner, cheaper power across the UK | News article from Energy Security and Net Zero Committee

✒️ Great British Energy permanent CEO appointed | Press release from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Great British Energy and Ed Miliband MP

📰 UK Government unveils first-ever onshore wind strategy | Public Sector News

📰 UK government abandons energy ‘zonal pricing’ plan | The Guardian

📰 Renewables industry backs UK on move to ditch zonal | ReNews

📰 Zonal pricing would have put ‘off investing in the UK’ | Energy Voice

📰 Government drops proposal to introduce mandatory community benefit scheme for developers of ‘large’ onshore wind schemes | Planning Resource

📰 NESO opens window for new grid connections | ReNews

📰 Energy breakthrough as underwater turbine spins for six years off Scotland’s coast | The Independent

📰 EDF will invest £1.1bn in Sizewell C plant, France and UK announce | The Guardian

📰 Brookfield set to take over 20% stake in Sizewell C | Financial Times (paywall)

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INFRASTRUCTURE

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✒️ Green light for over 50 road and rail upgrades supporting over 39,000 new homes and 42,000 jobs | Press Release from the Department for Transport and HM Treasury, Heidi Alexander MP and Rachel Reeves MP

✒️ UK and France partner on navigation systems to protect critical infrastructure from hostile threats | Press release from the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and Peter Kyle MP

✒️Thames Water recalled to EFRA Committee following disclosures and new financial concerns | News article from the Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs Committee

📰 Labour ought to think small on infrastructure | The Guardian

📰 Building big in Britain takes far longer than rest of developed world | The Times (paywall)

📰 UK Government Backs Next-Gen Battery Tech With New Funding | edie

📰 Government's record £92 billion investment to transform UK transport and drive growth | London Business News

📰 Government backs Midlands Rail Hub | Railway Gazette

📰Road schemes will ‘probably’ be finished in under a decade | Independent

📰 Sweden gives £690m backing to UK subsea cable link | Energy Voice

📰 Solar plant to power London Underground trains | Railway Gazette

📰 EV charging hub growth shows 'future direction for UK infrastructure' | Fleet News

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DEVELOPMENT

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✒️New UK support to power green growth at home while tackling climate change abroad | Press release from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and David Lammy MP

✒️ Engaging People for Biodiversity Net Gain | Institute of Development Studies

📰 EAC session creates more uncertainty around Planning and Infrastructure Bill | Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management

📰 UK construction jumps 49% after “flurry of starts” in housebuilding | BuyAssociation

📰 UK construction activity falls for six consecutive month | The Construction Index

📰 A year after the general election, what progress are we making towards 1.5 million homes? | Building

📰 The UK's housing crisis is about quality and sustainability, not just numbers | The New Statesman

📰 UK builders to pay 100 million pounds to housing programmes after competition probe | Reuters

📰 Vistry warns of first-half profit slump, expects UK home funding to drive growth | Reuters

📰 The new planning reforms that could help self-builders fix Britain’s broken housing market | Homebuilding & Renovating

📰 New social homes to be exempt from Right to Buy for 35 years | Inside Housing

📰 'Hypocrisy!' Angela Rayner among Labour MPs slammed for housing blitz 'double standards' | Daily Express

📰 Scotland's housing crisis: Labour blast SNP for lack of housing plan | The Herald

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