Rigid environment laws mean house building bans across country, Parliament told
Rigid environmental laws have led to effective bans on house building in many areas across the country, Parliament has been told.
Meanwhile, the Government is not on track to meet either its housing or environmental targets, according to peers from the Built Environment Committee.
A cross-party group of peers has warned that strict regulations on water, nutrient neutrality and biodiversity result in a “perverse” slew of unintended consequences.
They argued that the nutrient neutrality requirements hinder plans to build homes, while the main polluters are actually intensive farming practices and water companies dumping
