Spotlight: The importance of the Green Economy, New Towns blow and Cambridge set for growth

ENERGY

✒️ Energy security, jobs and investment boost through climate action | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero  

✒️ New proposals to cut bills with community batteries | Department for Energy Security and Net Zero  

🗣️ The race for net zero | Report by Energy & Climate Intelligence Unit

📰 Report: UK’s £100bn net-zero industry supports over a million workers | Edie  

📰 Scotland provides highest value to UK’s £105bn net zero economy | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

📰 Developers say hydro power 'being missed' because of wind focus | BBC News

📰 Ed Miliband calls for UK to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 87% by 2040 | Financial Times

📰 New strategy to defend energy sector from cyber threats | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

📰 Record clean energy surge threatened by reliance on gas | Energy Voice (paywall)

📰 UK renewables auction to exclude Gate 1 projects, AR8 timeline published | Solar Power Portal

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INFRASTRUCTURE

✒️ New Chair appointed to the Planning Inspectorate Board | News story from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Matthew Pennycook MP

✒️ Regulator sets action plan for safe adoption of AI in rail and road | Office of Rail and Road

📰 Ministers unveil new crackdown on Russian saboteurs trying to damage Britain’s vital undersea cables | The Independent

📰 Government delays go-live date for national scheme of delegation by a month | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 Britain’s biggest train operator nationalised | Railway Gazette  

📰 Data centre boom may need 40% more energy than previously thought | The Times (paywall)

📰 Environment Agency and Natural England reveal progress on planning timeline targets | Sustainable Construction

🗣️ UKREiiF 2026: Why The UK Needs To Stick To The Plan And Get On With Delivery | Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE)

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DEVELOPMENT

✒️ Planning Committees and the National Scheme of Delegation of Planning Functions: Draft guidance for local planning authorities in England | Consultation outcome from Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

✒️ Greater Cambridge gets regeneration body to accelerate growth | Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government  

🗣️ Establishment of the Greater Cambridge Development Corporation | Written statement made by Matthew Pennycook, Minister of State for Housing and Planning

🗣️ South Cambs District Council: Council warns that government’s urban development corporation risks sidelining local communities | South Cambridgeshire Council

🗣️ Mayor of London urged to provide firmer direction on BTR through London Plan review | Business LDN

📰 Enfield council withdraws from government’s new towns programme | The Guardian

📰 Reeves examines using private sector funds to speed building of new towns | The Guardian

📰 Khan and PM plot way to force through 21,000-home London new town | The Evening Standard

📰 More than £1.2bn of social value generated across UK social housing sector | Infrastructure Now

📰 British Land appoints new CEO | British Land  

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