{"id":484765,"date":"2025-10-09T04:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484765\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T04:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:45:14","slug":"water-agreement-to-allow-21000-new-homes-to-by-built-in-sussex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/484765\/","title":{"rendered":"Water agreement to allow 21,000 new homes to by built in Sussex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Michael Copleston, director of RSPB England, welcomed the decision, saying thousands of other species in the area could be protected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arun Valley is home to a variety of different wildlife including water voles, swans, gulls, ducks, egrets, kingfishers, amphibians and fish. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is still a lot of work to be done, we must make sure that the decision delivers for nature as well as enabling house building,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steve Turner, executive director for Home Builders Federation, said the risk to the ramshorn snail as a consequence of water abstraction is &#8220;uncertain&#8221; and &#8220;largely unsubstantiated&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;New homes are significantly more water efficient than older ones and the occupants moving in will use less water,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He added the government&#8217;s response was &#8220;sensible&#8221; to an issue that has had a &#8220;grave effect on desperately-needed housing supply&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Defra says the building work will commence next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Copleston, director of RSPB England, welcomed the decision, saying thousands of other species in the area could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3843],"tags":[728,70,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-484765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115342391914527059","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}