Britain is tackling river pollution by going after the wrong culprits
Whatever the problem, the solution always seems to be building fewer houses
NUTRIENT NEUTRALITY came suddenly to Herefordshire, a pretty corner of western England, in 2019. “We had no warning. We just got a letter in the post,” says Merry Albright of Border Oak, a local house-builder. Like others, Ms Albright quickly discovered that she could no longer obtain permission to build homes across two-fifths of the county. She now travels across England, as far as Essex in the south-east, to seek work.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Bricks and water”
Britain May 7th 2022
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