The UK Government has promised a better and faster system for approving wind farms and other major infrastructure, as it acknowledged that it was taking way too long for decisions to come through.
Following years of pressure from some of the country’s biggest renewable developers, the government said that it wants to at least hit its own timescales.
From 2012 to 2021 the time it took to get a so-called Development Consent Order rose from 2.6 years to 4.2 years.
