Spotlight: Reforming judicial review for infrastructure, Pennycock at UKREiiF and HS2 Parliament report
21
May
2026
Author
Laura Kennedy
CROSS SECTOR NEWS
✒️ Reeves to use Parliament to drive through power plants and infrastructure | HM Treasury
✒️ Getting Britain Building: Reforming judicial review for infrastructure | Policy Paper, HM Treasury
📰 New NPPF to be published ‘very very shortly’, Reed says | Planning Resource (paywall)
📰 Chancellor set to reform rules on energy schemes and judicial reviews | Transport + Energy
🗣️ Ten things we learned from the King’s Speech 2026 | Institute for Government
ENERGY
📰 Solar to dominate power by 2032 | renews
📰 ‘More complex trading strategies’ necessary for BESS to be profitable in the UK | Energy Storage News
📰 The increasingly important role of battery storage in data centres | BisNow
📰 Two huge UK offshore wind projects win planning consent | upstream
INFRASTRUCTURE
✒️ HS2 6-monthly report to Parliament | Written statement to Parliament
📰 Focus on high speed and political pressure behind HS2 issues | Rail Magazine (paywall)
📰 HS2 cost estimate reaches staggering £102.7bn | pbc today
📰 Data center builds could be shielded from judicial review in UK planning reforms | The Register
📰'Dirty' datacentres the price of our AI? | Energy Live News
DEVELOPMENT
✒️ The Final Countdown webinar – supporting local planning authorities through a critical year | Planning Inspectorate
🗣️ Housing and Planning Minister speech to UKREiiF | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Matthew Pennycook MP
✒️ CEC Report – “Supporting a stronger pipeline: Growing the next generation of home builders” | The Careers and Enterprise Company
📰 AI-powered nimbyism is jamming Britain’s planning system putting 1.5 million new homes at risk | Business Matters
📰 Number of housing completions enabled by Homes England rises to 40,200 | Property Week (paywall)
📰 Plans for 25,000 seat London Colosseum unveiled | Evening Standard
📰 UK property taxes, highest in the world – and rising | City AM
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