Spotlight: Policy updates for clean power, modern transport and accelerated housebuilding

ENERGY

✒️ National Energy System Operator (NESO) publishes its Future Energy Scenarios (FES), Connections Reform Results and it’s plan Unveiling the new project pipeline to deliver Clean Power by 2030

✒️ Our vision and mission | Great British Energy

✒️ Great British Energy backs Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

📰 GBE sets out first strategic plan, placing long-duration storage at the heart of the UK’s energy transition | International Water Power

✒️ Major boost for UK clean energy supply chains | Great British Energy

📰 UK government commits £310 million to onshore renewables auction | Solar Power Portal

📰 ‘Smart policy’ needed for UK to seize clean energy jobs | Solar Power Portal

📰 Ofgem approves early investment in three UK electricity ‘superhighways’ | The Guardian

📰 UK solar industry welcomes legacy subsidy reform | Renewable Energy Magazine

📰 Is there a future for carbon capture and storage in Scotland? | BBC News

📰 ‘It’s Scotland’s energy’: SNP to focus on renewables in Holyrood election | The Guardian

🗣 Podcast Episode 74 - London's Climate Action | Public Sector News – interview with Kate Hand, Head of Climate Change at London Councils

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INFRASTRUCTURE

✒️ All change: The future of British trains arrives as government reforms broken railways | Department for Transport

📰 Government unveils the future of British rail | Public Sector News

🗣 Second reading of Railways Bill | House of Commons

🗣 10th December Planning and Infrastructure Bill – consideration of Commons amendments | House of Lords

📰 Next stage of construction begins at HS2’s longest green tunnel | Rail UK

✒️ Euston, we have a problem: Mind the funding gap | London City Hall

📰 MPs urge South East Water boss to explain Kent water crisis | BBC News

📰 Accelerating the UK’s AI readiness | PBC Today

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DEVELOPMENT

✒️ More homes and improved high streets for new mayoral areas through 30-year funding package | Press release from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Miatta Fahnbulleh MP

📰 New mayors to get £200m a year to boost stalled housebuilding | The Negotiator

📰 Housing secretary Steve Reed: new law will ‘halve’ planning delays | The Times (paywall)

📰 Government’s grey belt policy the ‘biggest single land use policy change in the last 50 years’, says developer body chairman | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 Majority of grey belt developments to be built on undeveloped green belt land | pbc today

📰 Revised NPPF should be published by 18 December, Pennycook hints | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 Why housebuilding in London stalled | Local Government Chronicle (LGC) (paywall)

📰 Contracting and housebuilding turnover up more than 6% year-on-year | Building (paywall)

🗣 Access to healthy environments: Public good or commodity? | The Planner

📰 Why it’s so important to change the public perception of new towns | Building (paywall)