Government reaches record approval rate of major infrastructure projects
This government has seen the largest number of major infrastructure projects to be approved in the first year of a Parliament.
A record of 21 decisions have been made on projects throughout the first year, including new wind farms, roads and airport expansions.
The current government is urgently working on a building acceleration package to get Britain building, pushing ‘build, baby, build’, which removed every barrier to build 1.5m homes this Parliament.
Reforms within the Planning and Infrastructure Bill are predicted to speed up the consenting process for major economic infrastructure to meet its Plan for Change 150 decisions target, helping to create thousands of jobs and generate money.
Steve Reed, housing secretary says “we are backing our builders, brickies and businesses to get Britain building”.
Projects that have already received approval include the recent London Gatwick Airport expansion plans, M60/M62/M66 Simister Island and the Morgan Offshore Wind Project.