Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove are working on plans for an amendment to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill designed to free up more than 100,000 homes held up in planning by the nutrient neutrality crisis.

The prime minister and housing secretary are understood to be in discussions over bringing forward regulations to allow homes to go ahead now even though promised actions to alleviate nutrient pollution – such as new water treatment facilities – which will not actually be delivered until much later.

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