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Helen Corbett

Rayner: Government not compromising green protections to build homes faster

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner during a visit to a new housing development near Didcot, Oxfordshire (Jordan Pettitt/PA) - (PA Wire)

Angela Rayner has rejected that Labour will be “bulldozing over the greenbelt” or compromising on protections for nature to build homes faster.

The Deputy Prime Minister said that proposals to give a boost to smaller developers, which will ease the requirements for them to pay to boost nature habitats, were “pragmatism” and that the Government will be able to “protect nature at the same time”.

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