The major shift is likely to anger environmentalists, who have recently ramped up campaigns against sewage spills and other pollution leaching into Britain's rivers and seas.
The housing secretary Michael Gove is planning a major change to rules on waterway pollution in a bid to boost home building in England.
The government hopes the move, which is coming in an amendment to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, will allow 100,000 new homes to be built over the next few years to 2030. They obliged developers to mitigate or offset that pollution, but developers will now be freed from that obligation, and cost.The government will offset the"very small amount" of pollution instead, doubling an existing taxpayer-funded investment in the Nutrient Mitigation Scheme to £280m by 2030.
But water pollution rules are not the only issue affecting housing supply, with some calling for more public sector investment, making more land available and streamlining the planning process.Parliamentary figures show housing supply has increased year-on-year from a low point of 125,000 in 2012/13, reaching a high point of 243,000 new homes in 2019/20. Supply dipped during the COVID pandemic but rose again after that.
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