9. Short Debate: The impact of Natural Resources Wales's phosphate regulations

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:00 pm on 30 June 2021.

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Photo of Peter Fox Peter Fox Conservative 6:00, 30 June 2021

Thank you, Llywydd, and thank you, James, for giving me a minute of your time. And I'll cut straight to the chase—I absolutely support everything that you've said today. And just to demonstrate the pressure that it's putting on the planning system in Monmouthshire, for instance, we have currently 105 houses on the open market, which are planning applications that are held up, 77 affordable houses being stuck in the system. And it's likely to rise to 379 planning applications stuck in the system, 157 of those affordable housing. And that's really, really important—devastating for the applicants, devastating for those young people who are waiting for homes. And we need to find a solution here. Because Welsh Water, obviously, have committed most of their capital now, there needs to be a solution where Welsh Government, Welsh Water and local authorities come together very quickly and find a way of unlocking this impasse, because the technical solutions, which are there, cannot give that neutrality of phosphate discharge that is needed. Thank you, Llywydd.