New Housebuilding in the UK Held Back by Pollution from Factory Farms

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Since 2019, Natural England has told 74 local planning authorities with polluted rivers that they may not grant permission for new homes unless they were “nutrient neutral.” The Home Builders Federation estimates that the policy blocked the building of more than 160,000 properties.

  That’s pretty outrageous.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah. Factory farming is causing issues and the solution is to ban building homes?

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    • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      According to this article:

      housing developments add to the problem with extra wastewater and sewage from new homes as well as run-off from construction sites.

      Pretty much everything people do is polluting now and wipes out the fish.

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• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  More like the UK government (and every damn government since I’ve been alive) just hates housebuilding and will come up with any reason to prevent it.

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  • blackn1ght@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think it’s more that NIMBYs hate house building and generally slow the process down.

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  • kralk@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To what end? Just for lols?

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    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Same banality of evil that causes millionares row in New York to mostly just be a bunch of empty skyscrapers. Property makes an excellent investment vehicle and restricting the supply keeps prices high.

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• Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is the issue with building houses where there are high nitrogen levels?

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  • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can prevent it with veganic farming.

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    • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So apparently the problem is that:

      housing developments add to the problem with extra wastewater and sewage from new homes as well as run-off from construction sites

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    • Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I know and I’m aware of the massive damage that it does to our waters, I’m just not sure why it’s used as an excuse to not build houses in such areas. Does housing add to the problem of nitrates getting into the water or something? So many problems would go away if went organic and banned all fossil fuel derivatives.

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