Author Archives: Tom Pashby

Up to £5.5bn of additional public money is being made available to the Sizewell C nuclear power plant to help achieve a final investment decision (FID) on the project, subject to a spending review.

A new £40M institute called the Floods and Droughts Research Infrastructure (FDRI) has been launched by the government as part of efforts to protect homes, infrastructure and farms from extreme weather.

Applications for development consent orders (DCOs) by developers proposing Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) could face further delays and greater scrutiny following a Supreme Court ruling on operational emissions.

Nine firms have been named by National Grid to support it to deliver community engagement work required for consenting and construction of its 17 Great Grid Upgrade projects.

The argument between the developer of the £1.35bn Aquind Interconnector project and the government has reignited after the Ministry of Defence (MoD) wrote to the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) expressing its opposition on national security grounds.

The £40M Lydd Ranges Sea Defence scheme in Kent has been completed by Van Oord UK after overcoming “environmental sensitivities and the operational requirements of the adjoining firing ranges”.

The River Itchen Flood Alleviation Scheme (RIFAS) in Southampton has seen a dramatic increase in projected costs from £41M to £70M, according to a local councillor.

Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) is seeking a supplier for £46M of works including civil, mechanical and electrical engineering at its Low Level Waste Repository (LLWR) near Drigg in Cumbria.

The Westinghouse AP300 small modular reactor (SMR) has received approval from the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) to enter the generic design assessment (GDA) process.

Paralympian and member of the House of Lords Tanni Grey-Thompson was forced to “crawl off” a London North Eastern Railway (LNER) train at King’s Cross station, leading to criticism from disability campaigners and calls for greater focus on level boarding for accessibility.