皇冠体育app

皇冠体育app government published today (5 June 2014) new legislation designed to encourage investment in Britain鈥檚 infrastructure.

皇冠体育app Infrastructure Bill will help create stable long term funding for work on the country鈥檚 major road network ensuring smoother, quicker and quieter journeys and make it easier to sell surplus and redundant public sector land and property to help build more homes on brownfield land.

皇冠体育app legislation will also give local people the right to buy a stake in renewable energy projects, while cutting red tape for nationally significant infrastructure projects to boost investment.

Measures include:

• turning the Highways Agency into a government-owned company with stable long term funding to drive down costs to the taxpayer 鈥� saving 拢2.6 billion over the next 10 years and making the new arms-length company more accountable to Parliament and to road users
• enabling surplus and redundant public sector land and property to be sold more quickly by cutting red tape around such sales, increasing the amount of brownfield land available for new homes
• improve the nationally significant infrastructure regime by making a number of technical administrative improvements to the following a review of how the act has operated
• ending unreasonable and excessive delays on projects which already have been granted planning permission, by a new 鈥榙eemed discharge鈥� provision on planning conditions 鈥� this will help speed up house building
• creating a centralised Local Land Charges register, as part of the modernisation and digitisation of Land Registry, which will improve services and aim to reduce costs to users, helping to speed up the home buying process
• giving local communities the right to buy a stake in renewable energy infrastructure projects

Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said:

Investment in infrastructure is central to the government鈥檚 long-term economic plan and that is why we are spending almost 拢73 billion over the period 2015 to 2021 on transport alone.

This bill will hugely boost Britain鈥檚 competitiveness in transport, energy provision, housing development and nationally significant infrastructure projects.

皇冠体育appse powerful new measures will drive investment, making it easier, quicker and simpler to get Britain building for the future.

皇冠体育app joint bill was published by the Department for Transport on behalf of the:

• Land Registry
• Department of Energy and Climate Change
• Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• Department for Communities and Local Government

Its provisions have been developed following several reviews and extensive consultation.

皇冠体育app will be formally published on Friday 6 June 2014 by Parliament.