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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Lauren Almeida and Jillian Ambrose

Rachel Reeves to protect ‘critical’ clean energy projects from legal challenges

Wind turbines of an offshore wind farm with the Lake District in the background
Renewable energy developers have long bemoaned the difficulty in gaining planning permission for projects such as offshore windfarms. Photograph: Rob Arnold/Alamy

Rachel Reeves is poised to fast-track clean energy projects in England and Wales with planning reforms to curb the use of judicial reviews against new infrastructure, the ​Treasury has said.

Under the chancellor’s proposals, parliament will be able to designate and approve the most important clean energy projects as of “critical national importance”, as part of a wider package seeking to boost the UK’s energy security and soften the economic fallout from the Iran war.

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