Angela Rayner 'calls in' planning refusals for two hyperscale datacentres

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Angela Rayner 'calls in' planning refusals for two hyperscale datacentres

Two separate hyperscale datacentre projects in the Southeast of England which have recently been blocked by respective local councils have been reopened by the new Housing and Communities Secretary and Deputy PM.

Investment company Greystoke Land has previously put forward proposals to build hyperscale datacentres in Abbots Langley in Hertfordshire and Iver, Buckinghamshire. The submissions would both have ...

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