Government vows to divest green rules to “release” new home construction – Mortgage Strategy

Labor will revoke green regulations to “release an era of construction” to oversee the construction of 1.5 million new homes over the next five years.

The Ministry of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs issued a review of environmental regulations that found the current system “outdated, inconsistent and highly complex – neither natural nor growing”.

The review, led by economist Dan Corry, put forward 29 suggestions on simplifying regulation, and the government says all are being “actively considered.”

“As part of the change plan, I’m rewiring Defra and its long bodies to boost economic growth and unleash an era of construction,” said Environment Secretary Steve Reed (pictured) “as part of the change plan,” said Dr. Steve Reed, who also supports the recovery of nature.”

Dan Corry added: “Planning reforms and the new Natural Recovery Fund will unlock much-needed housing delivery and infrastructure while supporting natural recovery on a large scale.

“It will help developers more effectively meet their environmental obligations, making it easier to build vital infrastructure such as wind farms, railways and roads, thousands of tactics and data centers.”

The government said it has begun to take some key measures, including:

• Appointing a single chief regulator to speed up major infrastructure projects that will “end the carousel of developers and seek program approval from multiple authorities who often disagree with each other”

• A “Quick Review” of the Existing Environmental Guidance Directory

• Starting with the Natural England and the Environment Agency, set clearer measurable goals for all Defra’s regulators to “drive performance improvement and focus on government priorities”

• A new Defra Infrastructure Commission to “accelerate the delivery of large infrastructure projects” and stronger oversight by Defra and its cadavers of length to “removal of development barriers in the early stages”

• Rolling regulatory reforms will be “used to identify quick action, quick wins and long-term areas to improve regulation”

Corey added: “Currently, natural groups, developers and farmers are forced to navigate and comply with more than 3,500 regulations of complex patchwork (many of which are outdated and repetitive – as well as multiple overlapping regulators, while at the same time paying huge legal costs.

“This rigid and ancient approach has hindered not only growth, but also massive natural recovery, enhanced delivery of housing and infrastructure and created unnecessary financial and administrative burdens.”

In 2023, former conservative housing minister Michael Gove failed to successfully cut water pollution rules that blamed the exacerbation of the housing crisis in England, but environmental groups said it was crucial to protect the country’s rivers.