The government has drastically cut funds needed to
encourage new building on “brownfield” sites, despite claiming that such sites
would be key to solving the housing crisis. Many sites could be used for
housing but doing so would require work to remove remaining toxins from the
soil, which carries a cost. To date, that cost has often been borne by the
government and local authorities, but the MPs on the environmental audit committee
found that DEFRA had drastically cut its funding for remediation, and is
planning to phase it out in 2017. In richer areas, hopeful developers
frequently pay for decontamination themselves, but in poor districts they rely
on the council or central government to do so in order to render the site
suitable. Read more on the Guardian website.
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