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Views sought on planning reform proposals

A consultation launched by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) seeks views on a proposed approach to revising the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) in order to achieve sustainable growth in the planning system.

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New Towns Taskforce launched

A new generation of new towns is planned by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) as part of the government’s plan to kickstart economic growth and ‘get Britain building again’. The programme of new towns will create large scale communities of at least 10,000 new homes each, with many significantly larger.

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Infrastructure projects cut in Chancellor’s first statement

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has pledged to ‘restore economic stability’ after revealing £22 billion of unfunded pressures inherited from the previous Government in a Parliamentary speech on Monday this week.

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Lack of risk assessment leads to worker being paralysed

Cheshire-based electrical transmission contractor Wood Transmission and Distribution Ltd has been fined £240,000 with over £14,000 costs after a worker was paralysed from the chest down after a fall at work.

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Lack of infrastructure investment blamed for water companies’ unacceptably poor performance

Long-term lack of investment in infrastructure has been blamed by Environment Agency chief Alan Lovell for poor performance by water companies.

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Spending watchdog finds major faults in DfT data collection

The National Audit Office has found a catalogue of failings in the Department for Transport’s (DfT) oversight of the road network in a new report on the condition and maintenance of local roads in England.

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Company fined £3 million for fatal accident safety failings

Demolition specialist Veolia ES (UK) Ltd has been fined £3 million after a man died and another was seriously injured while decommissioning a North Sea gas rig in Great Yarmouth.

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HS2 scaleback costs revealed in spending watchdog report

Cancellation of the northern part of the HS2 project has left the project’s purposes unclear, wasted significant resources and undermined plans for increasing capacity, says government spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO).

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Planning reform central to government growth hopes

Construction has broadly responded favourably to the promise of the new approach to infrastructure investment and delivery held out in the King’s Speech this week.

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Government says Development Consent Order was an error in law

Two legal challenges against a Development Consent Order (DCO) granted to a coal mine development in Cumbria went ahead in the High Court this week, despite the new Labour government deciding not to defend the previous government’s granting of the consent.

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