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Planning and infrastructure weekly: NSIP consent and judicial review reforms, 10-Year Infrastructure Strategy, housing acceleration measures, solar DCOs, and Heathrow expansion—30 January 2025

Published on: 30 January 2025

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Planning for nationally significant infrastructure

MHCLG publishes working paper on streamlining infrastructure planning

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) has issued a Planning Reform Working Paper: Streamlining Infrastructure Planning, inviting feedback on reforming the consenting regime for nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs). It highlights prospective legislative changes, chiefly to the Planning Act 2008 (PA 2008). MHCLG has not set a formal deadline and will set out the next steps on these proposals in due course. See News Analysis: Accelerating national infrastructure—proposals to streamline NSIPs.

Prime Minister announces reforms to judicial review process for NSIPs

The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has confirmed that the government will proceed with reforms to the judicial review process for nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs), as recommended by Charles Banner KQ in the independent review of judicial review for NSIPs. A written parliamentary statement by the Minister of State for Justice, Sarah Sackman, explains that a principal change will be the reduction in the number of attempts to secure permission to bring legal challenges against a development for nationally significant infrastructure...

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