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Environmental quangos will lose their ability to delay major housebuilding and infrastructure developments under government planning reforms, Oliver Wright reports in a story for the Times. Wright says:
Regulators will no longer be able to demand that developers mitigate the environmental damage caused by new buildings before construction can start.
Instead, they will be required to pay into a new national “nature restoration” fund to “offset” any potential damage, and continue with projects without delays …
