Rachel Reeves to protect ‘critical’ clean energy projects from legal challenges

Chancellor's planning shake-up would reduce exposure from judicial review on all but human rights grounds'

Rachel Reeves is preparing to announce a planning shake-up that would fast-track clean energy and infrastructure projects by curbing judicial reviews, the Treasury has said.

The chancellor will propose that parliament should be able to designate and approve the most important clean energy projects as of critical national importance", as part of a wider package seeking to soften the economic blow from the Iran crisis.