A new study from Compassion in World Farming (CiWF), Friends of the Earth, and Sustain has looked at levels of manure and slurry across the UK from intensively farmed animals, and it concluded that…
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.
Yeah. Factory farming is causing issues and the solution is to ban building homes?
According to this article:
Pretty much everything people do is polluting now and wipes out the fish.
Yeah, but the current polluters don’t have a vested interest in fixing their problem to allow for new housing.
A mandate to require new development to meet a standard on sewage would be more productive than an outright ban.