Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has recently stepped in to recover two giant data centres on green belt sites in Buckingham and Hertfordshire, previously rejected by local councils.

The plans will form part of the new government's wider plans for a "new growth-focused approach to the planning system".

In our latest podcast episode, Sustainability Partner Ben Stansfield and Head of our Data Centre Sector practice Jocelyn Paulley discuss planning policies for data centres, data centre development and infrastructure and what this means for the data centre sector in the UK.