What’s next for nutrients?
With a serious negative effect on the natural environment as well as on valued habitats, nutrient pollution has come to the forefront of the agenda for local planning authorities when considering the potential impacts of a proposed residential development.
Having received governmental assurance that these strict regulations will be eased for smaller scale developments, legal director Joe Taylor questions where this leaves residential developers, in an article for Professional Housebuilder.
‘The one thing that residential developers need to deliver on the Government’s housing targets is certainty – and that is something that remains in short supply.
Developers have seen costs increase, soaring interest rates, access to a shrinking labour market and ever-growing delays to planning. All of which create uncertainty and delay.’
The full article can be read on page 13 of the Professional Housebuilder December 2023 edition.