Building for Greener Growth

After winning the UK 2024 general election, the Labour government's UK economic growth plan has a big emphasis around sustainable planning reform and green security. 

Effective planning reform should integrate sustainable practices into the regulatory frameworks that guide growth, to ensure the UK can thrive both now and in the future. Developments in this space will impact projects across a variety of industries and sectors including planning, energy, construction, real estate, corporate, and the public sector. 

As we navigate the complexities of economic growth and planning development reform, our experts will keep you up to date with the latest topics as they progress. From insight articles, reports, guides, webinars and more – we’ll highlight the opportunities and challenges that businesses should be aware of and how Ashfords can help your business as developments evolve.

Grid reform toolkit

NESO final proposal - Gate 2 methodology

As part of the wider grid reforms the National Energy System Operator (NESO) has announced that it will pause all applications for new grid connections received as of 29th January 2025 whilst the final methodologies on connection reform and proposed code modifications are considered by Ofgem for approval. 

In 2023/24 alone, NESO received over 1,700 queue applications, with more projects already in the queue than is required for the energy system in 2030 or even 2050.

To help you navigate the proposed new processes to obtain a confirmed position in the new connections queue and a confirmed connection point and date, we have created an interactive toolkit summarising the key provisions of the various methodologies.

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