Spotlight: Clean power expansion, planning reform and affordable housing goals.

ENERGY

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✒️ Solar roadmap | Policy paper from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

✒️ Homeowners could save hundreds on energy bills from solar drive | Press release from Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and Michael Shanks MP

📰 UK Solar Roadmap charts course for clean energy growth | SolarPower Europe

📰 Don't go zonal go for reform | Energy Live News

📰 Economic forces will drive clean energy | Politics Home

📰 Growth is competing with Labour’s other missions | Financial Times (paywall)

📰 Ofgem gives initial approval to £24bn grid investment | The Construction Index

📰 UK grid set for £8.9bn expansion | ReNews

📰 UK remains an ‘attractive’ space for clean energy investment | Current News

📰 £24bn Moroccan solar power project rejected by UK government | Engineering and Technology Magazine

📰 SP Energy Networks launches £1.4B investment to support Clean Power 2030 Mission | Renewable Energy Magazine

📰 Ofgem approves £24bn investment into UK energy networks | Financial Times (paywall)

📰 SolarPower Europe launches European BESS advocacy platform | SolarPower Europe

📰 Green Policy Snapshot: Labour Government's First Year | Aldersgate Group

📰UK solar capacity approaches 19 GW milestone | Solar Power Portal

📰 Crown Estate profits surge to £1.1bn | ReNews

INFRASTRUCTURE

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🗣️ UK Infrastructure: A 10 Year Strategy | Presented to Parliament by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the Rt Hon Darren Jones MP

✒️ Upgrading national grid to power AI future to be tackled at AI Energy Council | Press release from Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

✒️ New Permanent Secretary at Department for Transport | News from Department for Transport

📰 Labour ought to think small on infrastructure | The Guardian

📰 The government’s ten-year infrastructure strategy | CBI

📰 UK Government announces its new 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy - good news for the industry? | Lexology (paywall)

📰From roads to reactors: spending review opportunities for UK infrastructure firms | PBC Today

📰 What does the UK government's 10 Year Infrastructure Strategy mean for the energy sector? | Osbourne Clarke

📰 Strict deadlines and supply audits could help Britain's infrastructure delivery backlog | PBC Today

DEVELOPMENT

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✒️ Delivering a decade of renewal for social and affordable housing | Policy paper from Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government

✒ Reforms to Building Safety Regulator to accelerate housebuilding | Press release from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

✒️ New online appeals service launching for all local planning authorities | Press release from Planning Inspectorate

✒ Planning Inspectorate publishes Annual Report and Accounts 2024/25 | Press release from Planning Inspectorate

📰 Ministers looking to make ‘greater use’ of designation powers, says MHCLG planning director | Planning resource (paywall)

📰 Rayner to back plan to build 180,000 social homes in next decade | East Anglian Daily Times

📰 MHCLG sets 180,000 social homes target | Local Government Chronicle (LGC) | Local Government Chronicle

📰 Inside Housing - Home - New social homes to be exempt from Right to Buy for 35 years | Inside Housing (paywall)

📰 Was the House of Lords Planning debate the lifeline that nature needed? | RSPB

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