Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England — SkimNews
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- The Conservatives will announce a "bonfire of regulations" including scrapping Natural England and the Environment Agency
- The shadow chancellor will also pledge to abolish affordable homes and community funding rules
- The deregulation push is explicitly framed as a strategy to refocus on growth
- Natural England and the Environment Agency are the two specific environmental regulatory bodies named for abolition
- Affordable homes requirements would be eliminated, removing a mandate on developers to include below-market housing in new builds
Why it matters: Abolishing Natural England and the Environment Agency would dismantle the UK's two main environmental regulators, while scrapping affordable homes requirements would remove a key lever for increasing housing supply at below-market rates — a direct trade-off pitched by the party as a growth-versus-regulation choice.
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