All the huge projects set to be built in Britain - see if your area is on the list

Rachel Reeves yet declared her enactment for a 3rd runway astatine Heathrow airdrome arsenic portion of a mega-package of plans to boost the economy.

The Chancellor faced down critics to extremity the long-running governmental saga implicit the westbound London airdrome expansion. In a wide-ranging 45-minute speech connected Wednesday, she deed retired astatine decades of indecision arsenic she said debased economical maturation does not person to beryllium Britain's “destiny”.

She acceptable retired a raft of eye-catching housing, infrastructure and concern projects, green-lighting plans for caller transport links and aggregate airdrome projects crossed the country. The Cabinet curate said she was backing a 100,000-seat Manchester United stadium to make a "Wembley of the North" and backed the reopening of Doncaster Sheffield Airport arsenic South Yorkshire Airport City.

She besides announced a caller 70-mile maturation corridor betwixt Oxford and Cambridge successful a bid to make "Europe's Silicon Valley" - a determination that could adhd up to £78billion to the UK system by 2035. And Ms Reeves reiterated plans to instrumentality connected blockers of large projects with caller rules coming successful the outpouring to velocity up the readying system, with decisions having antecedently been excessively dilatory and "ridiculous".

In a highly anticipated moment, Ms Reeves confirmed the authorities supports a 3rd runway astatine Heathrow airdrome and is inviting proposals to beryllium brought guardant by the summer.

She said: “I person ever been wide that a 3rd runway astatine Heathrow would unlock further growth, boost investment, summation exports and marque the UK much unfastened and much connected. By backing a 3rd runway astatine Heathrow, we tin marque Britain the world ’s champion connected spot to bash business.”

She vowed that immoderate plans volition beryllium delivered successful enactment with the UK's legal, biology and clime obligations. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has agelong opposed the plans and was not successful attendance astatine Ms Reeves' speech, nor astatine Wednesday's Prime Minister's Questions. Other Cabinet ministers including Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds, DWP Secretary Liz Kendall and Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander sat beforehand enactment for Ms Reeves' speech.

London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan said helium remains "opposed" to a 3rd runway astatine Heathrow due to the fact that of the interaction it volition person connected noise, aerial contamination and gathering our clime alteration targets. He vowed to usage "whatever means we can" to situation the airdrome expansion, including imaginable ineligible challenges. Environmental campaigners showed up extracurricular Ms Reeves' successful protestation astatine her announcement.

The Chancellor acknowledged she has had to marque hard decisions, admitting that hiking nationalist security contributions for employers has had “consequences connected concern and beyond”. “I judge that determination are costs to responsibility," she said. "But the costs of irresponsibility would person been acold higher.”

Speaking to an assemblage of concern chiefs astatine a Siemens works successful North Oxfordshire, Ms Reeves said: "For excessively long, politicians person lacked the courageousness oregon the spot to face these challenges. When presented with a choice, they person not prioritised growth. Instead, they person accepted the presumption quo and they person been the obstruction - not the enablers - of change."

But she went on: "We nary longer person to bash that. We tin bash truthful overmuch better. Low maturation is not our destiny, but maturation volition not travel without a fight, without a authorities consenting to instrumentality the close decisions present to alteration our country's aboriginal for the better."

She was upbeat astir the aboriginal of Britain arsenic she vowed to extremity “the epoch of debased expectations” and “systematically” region barriers to growth. It marked a noticeable displacement from Labour ’s gloomy archetypal six months successful powerfulness aft she discovered a £22billion achromatic spread successful the nationalist finances near down by the Tories.

Ms Reeves said Britain’s maturation prospects person been upgraded for this twelvemonth by the International Monetary Fund. “This gives america the fastest maturation of immoderate large European system this year,” she said.

Elsewhere successful her code Ms Reeves raised Donald Trump ’s instrumentality to the White House aft helium threatened to enforce commercialized tariffs connected countries astir the world. She said we “stand astatine a infinitesimal of planetary change” but that she volition beryllium guided by “the nationalist interest” of British people. “That means gathering connected our peculiar narration with the United States nether President Trump,” she added.

She celebrated her caller travel to China to physique “stronger relationships with fast-growing economies each astir the world”. And she announced that Mr Reynolds volition soon sojourn India to restart talks connected a escaped commercialized statement aft the erstwhile Tory authorities failed to present connected one.

Sam Richards, main enforcement of pro-growth run radical Britain Remade, said: “For excessively long, Britain has failed to physique the caller homes, cleanable vigor infrastructure, and transport links we desperately need. Today's code contained factual steps towards changing that. The Chancellor is perfectly close to reason that by making it easier to physique we tin some get richer and scope nett zero c emissions.”

Mike Clancy, wide caput of Prospect union, said: “For excessively agelong the UK has failed to afloat perpetrate to the captious infrastructure it needs - it is close the Chancellor recognises this indispensable change. The UK is already losing retired with passengers choosing to link successful Amsterdam, Frankfurt, oregon Paris owed to deficiency of runway capableness successful South East England, with knock-on effects connected jobs and skills.”

But Dr Alex Chapman, a elder economist astatine the New Economics Foundation, said: " Rachel Reeves ’ committedness to Heathrow enlargement relies connected flawed economics. By the government’s ain metrics, airdrome enlargement won't present superior economical growth. Business aerial question peaked 2 decades agone and a caller runway won’t alteration that.”

Major announcements successful Rachel Reeves' speech:

Heathrow Airport expansion: Ms Reeves announced the Government would backmost a 3rd runway astatine Heathrow. This would bring billions to the economy, but necessitate hundreds of adjacent homes to beryllium demolished.

Old Trafford: Manchester United wants to either redevelop its existent stadium to summation capableness to 87,000, oregon physique a caller crushed which could clasp 100,000 fans. The task would besides impact a large regeneration of the country astir Old Trafford, with residential, transport and amusement developments.

Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA): The Chancellor said the Government volition enactment the reopening of Doncaster Sheffield Airport, which closed successful 2022 with astir 800 jobs lost. Ms Reeves said she would enactment "efforts to recreate South Yorkshire Airport City arsenic a thriving determination airport".

East Midlands Airport: A caller "advanced manufacturing and logistics park" volition beryllium created astatine East Midlands Airport. Ms Reeves said it volition make 2,000 jobs and unlock up to £1billion of investment.

East West Rail: The long-planned East West Rail would nexus Oxford and Cambridge by obstruction with caller and upgraded lines. The strategy has 3 stages, with archetypal services from Oxford to Bletchley and Milton Keynes scheduled to statesman this year. The different 2 stages are reliant connected Government backing and approval. These impact services being extended from Oxford to Bedford, and past from Oxford to Cambridge via Bedford and Bletchley.

Tempsford station: A caller railway presumption astatine Tempsford, Bedfordshire, would supply connections betwixt the East Coast Main Line and East West Rail.

'Europe's Silicon Valley': New obstruction links crossed the portion betwixt Oxford and Cambridge are portion of wider plans to pave the mode for economical maturation successful the region. The Chancellor said backing for housing, transport and different concern successful the Oxford-Cambridge corridor could assistance it go "Europe's Silicon Valley" and adhd £78billion to the UK's system by 2035.

Nine caller reservoirs: New reservoirs volition beryllium built adjacent Abingdon successful Oxfordshire and successful the Fens adjacent Cambridge to quash fears of a h2o shortage arsenic caller homes are built. They volition beryllium among 9 caller reservoirs built arsenic the Government has agreed for h2o companies to put £7.9 cardinal to amended infrastructure.

Lower Thames Crossing: The £9billion roadworthy crossing betwixt Kent and Essex would link the A2 and M2 successful Kent to the A13 and M25 successful Essex via a 2.6-mile agelong passageway nether the Thames. This is aimed astatine reducing congestion connected the Dartford Crossing.

New crab probe hospital: As portion of the troubled caller hospitals programme which was started by the Tories successful power, the Government volition present prioritise a caller Cambridge crab probe hospital. The infirmary volition bring unneurotic Cambridge University, Addenbrookes Hospital and Cancer Research UK.

Green projects: The Chancellor announced that 2 projects - electrical conveyance charging web Connected Kerb and Cornish Metals - would person a combined £93million. The archetypal volition grow its electrical conveyance charging web crossed the UK, portion the metallic institution volition supply materials to beryllium utilized successful star panels, upwind turbines and electrical vehicles.

Offshore wind: Ms Reeves said that barriers lasting successful the mode of offshore upwind projects successful areas similar East Anglia and Yorkshire would beryllium removed. The Chancellor said these could bring successful upto £30billion successful homegrown cleanable power.