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esolving the challenge of delivering the Government’s housebuilding and environmental promises goes beyond a dichotomy to being a “toxic interaction,” according to Lord Moylan, who chairs its Built Environment Committee. Even worse, Defra and DLUCH were “totally non-functional” in terms of working together on the issue.


Speaking to an audience of architects at a recent event staged by zinc supplier VMZinc in London, the Conservative Peer said that the Committee had explicitly addressed this confl ict between aims to increase housing delivery and its commitment to protect habitats in its recent report. Far from preaching to the converted, he also castigated nutrient neutrality requirements for sites as potentially compromising development goals, and strongly hinted that a large part of his objections to such draconian targets were based on the fact that they originated from EU law that we are still subjected to, post-Brexit.


The Committee’s recent report on the subject said “Both policies should be achievable in a mutually reinforcing way,” however adding that “in practice, our inquiry has found that this has been hampered and sometimes completely blocked by lack of co-ordination in policy-making and haphazard and unbalanced implementation.” Moylan pointed out that this crucial Election issue is even seeing a schism in the Lib Dems, with the ‘Young Liberals’ party faction rebelling against its own leadership’s abandoning their 380,000 homes target.


In terms of the Tories’ 300K housing target, (which had formerly been seen shuffl ing off the stage, but apparently remain as an ‘aspiration’), the strongly pro-housebuilding Lord Moylan said that his Committee was proposing an approach to make the targets statutory, rather than just a nice aim. However he did not state what kind of numbers he was talking about.


Are Lord Moyland’s comments, given his position running the Committee, a sign of a major Tory ‘rebalancing’ on the realities of its environmental aims, as the next General Election, with its likely promises of tax cuts, looms? Rishi Sunak’s recent dilution of heat pump targets, attempting to reassure consumers they won’t have to immediately pay to upgrade their heating systems, has shown him fall behind even Boris Johnson on eco aims.


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We’ve seen the strange spectacle of Johnson trying to seize the higher environmental ground, based on his ‘successes’ i.e. COP26 in Glasgow, and the £5,000 heat pumps grant his Government introduced. Rishi has now raised this to £7,500, but also extended the ban on gas boilers until 2035, although he says that homeowners will not be forced to replace them. The Government has also told the industry it still plans to install 600,000 heat pumps per year by 2028 in a briefi ng paper to the industry. It’s time to get real.


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