Planning bill is bad for developers and nature | Letters

The politician of London is close to redouble his efforts to tackle the capital’s lodging crisis, but determination is nary crushed this should travel astatine the disbursal of protecting quality (Sadiq Khan to denote plans to physique houses connected London greenish belt, 9 May).

We indispensable make good-quality and affordable homes, alongside greenish spaces that trim our toxic levels of aerial pollution, portion creating beautiful, livable communities. Indeed, immoderate poorly classified areas of the greenish loop assistance nobody, featuring disused car parks oregon concern land.

Therefore, if we are going to build, we should bash truthful successful harmony with nature. And this is wherever ministers indispensable measurement in. Without strong, accordant laws balancing competing demands implicit our onshore and environment, with due autarkic checks and oversight, we hazard accelerating the diminution of quality successful pursuit of growth, portion hurting the precise radical and sectors we are looking to help.

The readying and infrastructure measure is simply a premier illustration of wherever the authorities indispensable deliberation again astir however it ends the injustice of sky-high rents, alongside restoring nature-depleted municipality areas. As it stands, portion 3 of the measure slows down developers, making their enactment much costly and complex. It is simply a “lose-lose” for builders, the system and nature, and indispensable beryllium enactment connected clasp for due consultation.
Alexa Culver
General counsel, RSK Wilding