Starmer pledges to speed up infrastructure schemes by scrapping key legal challenges

By Tom Lowe2025-01-23T12:36:00

Sir Kier Starmer and Angela Rayner at Urban&Civic's Alconbury Weald development (2) Credit Simon Dawson, 10 Downing Street

Nuclear power plants, trainlines and wind farms would be built quicker under new rules, government says

The government has announced plans to speed up the construction of major infrastructure projects by reducing the ability of activists to challenge them in the courts.

Keir Starmer said proposals to be included in the upcoming Planning and Infrastructure Bill will “take on the NIMBYs and a broken system that has slowed down our progress as a nation”.

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