We can do so much better.  Labour has said its promise to build 1.5 million homes by the end of Parliament was…  “always a stretch target.” Here’s how it's going: We’ve built 437,900 homes.  That’s less than 30% of the target and we’re nearly halfway through the Parliament. Here’s 3 RADICAL actions the gov could take to reach the target.  1️⃣ LEAVE the Aarhus Convention: Aarhus makes the British people PAY for delays to projects that benefit them. We end up spending money on lawyers, lobbyists and consultants that could be spent building homes.  2️⃣ PRE-APPROVE beautiful homes: Publish a national pattern book of quality designs and let anyone who wants to build them skip the queue.  3️⃣ ABOLISH Natural England: Its rules held up 160,000 homes on the basis of ‘nutrient neutrality’. The Government has given Natural England the power to delay, block, ban and shut down improvements to Britain. This has to stop.