Rachel Reeves to protect ‘critical’ clean energy projects from legal challenges
Chancellor’s planning shake-up in England and Wales would ‘reduce exposure from judicial review on all but human rights grounds’ 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 wide…


