Spotlight: Record-breaking solar generation, fresh momentum in offshore wind and wave energy, and a renewed push to accelerate housing delivery

ENERGY

✒️ Clean Power 2030- Commissioner | Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

📰 UK energy regulators advance grid connections reforms | Tech UK

✒️Review of AI deployment in the electricity networks: terms of reference | Department for Energy Security & Net Zero

✒️Five Estuaries Offshore Wind Farm development consent decision announced | Planning Inspectorate

📰 UK solar generation smashes annual record | Renewable Energy Magazine

📰 CorPower Ocean leads €30m UK wave push | ReNews

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INFRASTRUCTURE

✒️ Planning and Infrastructure Bill completes passage through Parliament | Press release from House of Lords

📰 UK road and rail civil engineering sector caught in ‘negative cycle’, warns competition watchdog | New Civil Engineer

📰 Major infrastructure planning regime changes to follow under finalised bill | Pinsent Masons

📰 Health and safety rules holding UK infrastructure back, says writer of government report | The Guardian

📰 Data centres are becoming critical infrastructure and industry must catch up | Insurance Business

📰 National Grid energises next section of £1bn London Power Tunnels | Utility Week

📰 Stansted Airport given permission to raise passenger cap to 51 million | ITV News Anglia

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DEVELOPMENT

✒️Housing Sec pledges to 'go further than ever before' to hit 1.5 million homes | Press release from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

📰 Reaction to new draft NPPF | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 The #Planoraks 2025 - the new NPPF | Planoraks

📰 Planning overhaul to clamp down on 'unjustified local deviation' | LocalGov

📰 Planning reforms aim to simplify routes for SME developers and accelerate housing delivery | Construction Wave

🗣 Social value is not the problem – poor implementation is | Building (paywall)

📰 Cautious optimism: Housing outlook, mortgage rates – and what developers should do now | pbc today

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