By Ali Lyon The Labour government’s decision to lift the effective ban on onshore wind farms has been met with delight from the UK business community, with city lawyers and investors branding it a “no-nonsense statement” that will help “deliver on net-zero ambitions”. Rachel Reeves announced that Labour would remove the de facto ban, which was only in place because of two footnotes in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPFF), during a speech delivered to business leaders on Monday. In what was her debut appearance as the UK’s first female Chancellor, she referred to the ban as “absurd”, m…