{"id":37804,"date":"2023-10-10T16:33:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T15:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37804"},"modified":"2023-10-10T16:33:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T15:33:49","slug":"plans-to-scrap-nutrient-neutrality-rules-blocked-by-lords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=37804","title":{"rendered":"Plans to scrap nutrient neutrality rules blocked by Lords"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15124\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/House_of_Lords_Chamber_copyright_UK_Parliament.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"160\" \/>Members of the House of Lords voted against a government amendment to scrap nutrient neutrality rules\u2026<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration: Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Inside Housing<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>Last night, members of the House of Lords voted against a government amendment to scrap nutrient neutrality rules\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The vote came after an announcement last month by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities which said that scrapping the \u201cdefective EU laws\u201d would generate an estimated \u00a318bn for the economy between now and 2030&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To change the rule, the government introduced an amendment to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill, which was going through the House of\u00a0Lords.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative Baroness Scott of Bybrook, whose name the amendments are in, opened the debate: \u201cNutrients entering our rivers is a real and serious problem, but the contribution made by new homes is very small compared with that from sources such as industry, agriculture and our existing housing stock.\u201d\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>She also accused the government\u2019s plans of undermining \u201cour evidence-based planning system and set a dangerous precedent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Baroness Parminter, Liberal Democrat, admitted the current mitigation scheme in place is \u201cnot perfect\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the attempt to ease the rules was defeated by 203 votes to 156\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehousing.co.uk\/news\/plans-to-scrap-nutrient-neutrality-rules-blocked-by-lords-83126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the House of Lords voted against a government amendment to scrap nutrient neutrality rules\u2026 image for illustration: Parliamentary copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37805,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37804\/revisions\/37805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}