Natural England is the UK government's statutory adviser on nature conservation, overseeing wildlife, habitats and environmental licensing in England.
Kemi Badenoch would scrap the future homes standard, whose energy measures cost £5,000-£8,000 a home at build but over £20,000 to retrofit. Buyers of homes built without them would carry that gap, in a country the Guardian says needs about 6m new homes.
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Shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith wants Natural England and the Environment Agency abolished in a package the Tories say cuts up to £50,000 off a new home. Until an election, firms still plan against the government's rules and its 28 October Budget.
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Andrew Griffith said a Tory government would aim to scrap at least one tax every budget and would abolish the £2m-plus mansion tax due in 2028. The specific taxes he named, including a packaging scheme that firms pay for, are firmer promises than the per-budget goal, which he made conditional on affordability.
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Environment Agency reports say Stanlow refinery, which makes about 18% of UK road fuel, broke its permit 58 times across 2023 and 2024. The agency is now investigating breaches that came after the 2018-20 offences operator EET Fuels pleaded guilty to this year.
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England's first Environmental Delivery Plan would charge Norfolk housebuilders £2,675 per home, a levy the government says frees 15,780 stalled homes. Ecologists say the habitat work it funds would not necessarily cut the pollution reaching the county's chalk streams.
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Tory shadow chancellor Andrew Griffith will pledge to scrap the Environment Agency and Natural England and replace two developer obligations with one levy. With the party polling third, the pledges bind no one yet but name the rules a Conservative government would remove.
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A Leeds-led team sequenced 363 birds and 51 shared food and water resources at 12 farmland sites, and found the more virulent Type A strain over twice as prevalent in birds feeding at dense stations as at wild seed.
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