Deputy prime minister stepped in over summer to run rule over Gensler-designed complex rejected last year by Buckingham planners

Angela Rayner has approved plans by Gensler for a controversial new data centre to be built on designated green belt land despite a local council previously blocking the move.

The deputy prime minister, who asked for a second look at the job over the summer, has overturned a decision to stop the development of a site in Iver, Buckinghamshire, on economic grounds due to a lack of alternative sites.

In a letter, planning minister Matthew Pennycook, who took the decision on Rayner’s behalf, said that she agreed with the “planning inspector that failure to meet this need could have significant neg