Mayors from across England will meet with the Prime Minister today as the government accelerates its drive to kickstart growth.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has published a policy paper setting out the biodiversity net gain (BNG) requirements for water resources nationally significant infrastructure projects (NSIPs).

Thames Water has launched a supplementary consultation on proposed design changes to its Teddington Direct River Abstraction (TDRA) project.

The Chancellor is proposing sweeping reforms that will give Parliament the authority to approve critical energy schemes and better protect infrastructure projects from judicial review.

Julia Pyke, former Joint Managing Director of the Sizewell C nuclear power project, has been appointed Executive Chair of the infrastructure advisory Agilia Infrastructure Partners - she joins Agilia on 2nd April 2026.

The partnership between Ofwat, the Environment Agency and the Drinking Water Inspectorate.has given the go-ahead for two Strategic Resource Option schemes (SROs) where Affinity Water and Severn Trent are the joint solutions owners to proceed to Gate 4 in the RAPID programme.

Essex & Suffolk Water, part of the Northumbrian Water Group, is inviting people to have their say on a major infrastructure project that will improve water supply in Suffolk - the Suffolk Water Recycling, Transfer and Storage Project is a major initiative to secure future water supplies while protecting nature and promoting sustainability.

​The Government has today launched a new consultation on streamlining infrastructure planning which seeks views on changes to guidance, services operated by the public sector, and secondary legislation to streamline the infrastructure planning process for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs).

The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has published an updated National Policy Statement for water resources infrastructure – an update of the NPS released in 2023.

The government has announced that Environment Secretary Steve Reed has “seized control” of the planning process to build two major reservoirs for the first time since the 1990s, describing the move as a “significant intervention to speed up delivery of much-needed reservoirs.”