Ofwat has awarded a contract for a programme-wide Value for Money (VfM) appraisal of the Major Water Infrastructure Programme (MWIP) to identify, test and prioritise credible cost reduction and VfM opportunities, with a focus on decisions that can influence cost, schedule, risk and deliverability at the early stages of the project lifecycle across identified VfM drivers.

The Regulators’ Alliance for Progressing Infrastructure Development (RAPID) has agreed to a request from Yorkshire Water to delay the Gate 2 submission date for the South Yorkshire Sources Strategic Resource Option Yorkshire Water is developing with Severn Trent Water by 9 months to March 2027.

The UK Government should be doing more to deliver on its commitments to provide climate finance for some of the world’s poorest countries, the House of Commons International Development Committee has found.

Paul Hickey Senior Director – RAPID and Environmental Planning has written to Thames Water confirming the regulators’ gate one final decision that the Lower Thames to West London Reservoirs Strategic Resource Option should should continue to receive development funding to progress to gate B.

After a record-breaking summer of devastating wildfires across Britain, the cross-party House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee will tomorrow question the government on its lack of firefighting aircraft, a joined-up strategy and prevention techniques.            

The Regulators’ Alliance for Progressing Infrastructure Development (RAPID) has confirmed its draft decision to solution owner Northumbrian Water that further funding should be allowed for the North Suffolk Reservoir Strategic Resource Option to progress to gate B.