Spotlight: UK's new carbon budget delivery plan, Rebuilding Britain report and planning reform

ENERGY

📰 UK unveils ‘carbon budget delivery plan’ to get back on track for net zero targets | The Guardian

✒️ Climate plan captures clean energy benefits and boosts investment | Press release from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

🗣️ Britain can’t afford to delay its green energy transition | Juergan Maier, Chairman of Great British Energy

📰 Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds | The Guardian

📰 Budget for new offshore wind projects should be adjusted to maximise amount of vital clean energy capacity UK can secure | RenewableUK

📰 Low auction budget puts UK offshore wind at risk | reNews

📰 Offshore windfarm projects may be exempted from new UK nature rules | The Guardian

📰 Why the UK Needs a Unified AI Strategy for Energy | The Engineer

📰 UK Government appoints Emily Shuckburgh as Chief Scientific Adviser | Energy Live News

📰 Solar industry hits back at Derbyshire County Council opposition | BBC News

📰 SolarPower Europe launches EU Agrisolar Policy Map | Solar & Storage Xtra

INFRASTRUCTURE

✒️ Rebuilding Britain: Unlocking Growth from the UK’s Infrastructure Strategy | AECOM

📰 AECOM urges deeper planning reform to integrate infrastructure and accelerate delivery in the United Kingdom | BDC📰 A decade of collaborative investment for UK growth | Local Government Chronicle (LGC)

📰 A decade of collaborative investment for UK growth | Local Government Chronicle

📰 Why optimists build better infrastructure | Financial Times (paywall)

📰 Re-routing infrastructure for a more sustainable UK rail network | Environmental Journal

📰 Launching a new era for public transport in the UK | Public Sector News

📰 Why optimists build better infrastructure | Financial Times (paywall)

📰East West Rail launches market engagement for £700M major support works framework | New Civil Engineer (paywall)

📰 Vast majority of new build infrastructure not adopted by public bodies, say HBF | pbc today

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DEVELOPMENT

✒️ New common-sense approach to environmental regulation to support new homes drive | Press release from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, Environment Agency and Emma Hardy MP

🗣️Building faster, building fairer: can we make growth work for nature? | Dame E.J. Milner-Gulland, Professor of Biodiversity in Oxford University’s Department of Biology

📰 Government issues call for evidence on how AI can ‘speed up planning system’ | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 Government likely to fall 25% short of 1.5 million-home target, says CIH | Housing Today

📰 Government reorganises Surrey councils to 'speed up housebuilding' | Property Week

📰 What the government’s steer to inspectors to push for green belt reviews means for plan-making | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 MPs urge government to introduce ‘standardised’ section 106 templates | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 Lords vote down government’s ‘astonishing’ bill amendment that would allow ministers to stop councils refusing applications | Planning Resource (paywall)

📰 Lords vote down government’s ‘astonishing’ bill amendment that would allow ministers to stop councils refusing applications | Planning Resource (paywall)

🗣️Select Committee Statement on the Third Report of the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee, Delivering 1.5 million new homes: Land Value Capture, HC 672 | Westminster Hall Debate