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FROM THE EDITOR


James Parker


Speaking at an industry event hosted by zinc supplier VMZinc recently, no less a person than the chair of the Lords’ Built Environment Committee, Lord Moylan, admitted to attendees what they probably already knew. Namely that the realities of delivering on the Government’s still extant target of 300,000 homes (or Labour’s recently revealed target of 1.5 million new homes), puts it drastically at odds with its simultaneous environmental aims, such as nutrient neutrality, and net zero.


He went as far as to call the convergence of these aims, given their apparent confl ict, being a toxic interaction, and called for tough measures in order to make delivery more realistic. Part of the reason for the lack of synergy between the two goals was, he said, that Defra and the epartment of evelling p were totally non-functional in terms of working together on housing delivery.


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Something of a cheerleader for housebuilders, Moylan castigated the quickly imposed nutrient neutrality requirements for sites as compromising our national goals, in the face of population challenges, but also hinted that a large part of his objections to such targets were based on the fact that they originated from EU laws.


The Built nvironment ommittee explicitly addressed this confl ict between delivery numbers and green goals in its recent report, ‘The impact of environmental regulations on development,’ which said that both policies should be achievable in a mutually reinforcing way. ut it attacked the overnment by saying the ommittee’s inquiry has found that this has been hampered and sometimes completely blocked by lack of co-ordination in policy-making and haphaard and unbalanced implementation.


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In terms of the Tories’ 300K housing target, (which was apparently never in doubt) Moylan said that the Committee was proposing an approach that would be predicated on making the targets a legal requirement, rather than just an ‘aspiration.’ However, he would not reveal a possible ball-park fi gure, when questioned by Housebuilder & Developer at the VMZinc event.


Are Lord Moylan’s comments, given his infl uence in the party, a sign of a major Tory reappraisal of its environmental aims, with the temptations of tax cuts towards the Election campaign hoving into view? It does seem like there’s a general softening on the green agenda, with PM Rishi Sunak’s recent pushing back heat pump targets, in a direct message to hard-pressed consumers telling them they won’t be forced to replace gas boilers.


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This even makes Boris Johnson’s green ‘successes’ i.e. COP26 in Glasgow, and the £5,000 heat pumps grant his Government introduced, look a shade or two brighter. Raising this to £7,500 as Sunak has just done, seems a relatively minor gesture given that the ban on new gas boilers has been pushed back 10 years to 2035. Confusingly, the Government has also told the industry it still plans to install , heat pumps per year by  in a briefi ng paper. n a similar way to the swift recall of nutrient neutrality regulations, it’s time to get real.


James Parker


Recognising that both housing delivery and delivering on green aims were going to be critical in the next General Election, Moylan pointed out even the Lib Dems are split, with a ‘Young Liberals’ faction rebelling against its elders after they abandoned their 380,000 homes target.


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