The BBC reports that Housing Secretary Michael Gove is “still committed to a manifesto pledge of building 300,000 homes every year by the mid-2020s”.
“He said new developments should be ‘more beautiful’, have the consent of the local community, be accompanied by the right infrastructure and protect the environment”, according to the BBC.
Read the article here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63445365.
If the article can’t be found on the BBC website, you can read a pdf version here.
LDHS organiser Hilary Stroude commented:
“I nearly choked on my coffee! If Northstowe is an example of the government protecting the environment then we are all in trouble. […] This problem has happened whilst the Tories have been in government and if Michael Gove means what he says he will get to the bottom of the aquifer problem and help restore groundwater across this village.”
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