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Lords to debate mandating swift bricks in new homes in England
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The change to the controversial levelling up bill is being tabled by the Conservative peer Zac Goldsmith, who resigned from government over Rishi Sunak’s “apathy” towards environmental issues.
Britain’s population of the migratory swift – whose “screaming” over house roofs is an evocative sound of summer – declined by 60% between 1995 and 2020.
A number of Tory MPs and leading Conservatives have spoken in support of mandatory swift bricks alongside some major housebuilders.
As a housebuilder, Thakeham recognise the opportunity we have to support nature recovery through the landscape-led master planning, but also within the homes we build.
The writer and campaigner Hannah Bourne-Taylor, who set up the petition, said: “This amendment is a golden opportunity for the government to honour its own commitments to halt biodiversity loss by 2030.
The Conservative peer Lord Randall of Uxbridge, who is supporting the amendment, said: “Hannah’s campaign has been amazing but now it’s down to us in parliament to legislate for this.
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