PAC slams HS2 project, Old Oak Common station to add ￡10bn to London’s economy & Biodiversity net gain: One year on | PBC Weekly

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Old Oak Common station to boost London economy by ￡10bn

A new HS2 report claims that the area around the London station will be a new development hotspot, encouraging inward investment. The report, titled From trains to cranes: HS2 and the West London development boom, discusses the area around the Old Oak Common station.

The report describes the area as going through a transport-led regeneration with thousands of new jobs and homes to come over the next 10 years.

Full story: Old Oak Common station to boost London economy by ￡10bn

PAC slams HS2 project and call for ‘fundamental reset’

The Public Accounts Committee has published a report lambasting the HS2 project as ‘a litany of failures and unheeded warnings’.

Read the full article: PAC slams HS2 project and call for ‘fundamental reset’

Climate Change Committee sets out seventh carbon budget

The UK Climate Change Committee’s Seventh Carbon Budget outlines key strategies to cut emissions by 2040, including ramping up heat pump adoption, improving home insulation, and promoting carbon capture in heavy industries.

Read the full article: Climate Change Committee sets out seventh carbon budget

Construction companies that couldn’t survive in 2025

Learn more about the construction companies that have fallen into administration after tough times in 2025 here: 2025 in administrations: the latest construction companies to fall

Biodiversity net gain: One year on

As we reach the first anniversary of mandatory biodiversity net gain requirements for most planning applications of England, Samantha Willis , senior biodiversity consultant at Ramboll , looks at the impact of the regulations and where the market will go next

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