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- The UK Labour government will let Norfolk developers discharge sewage into rivers paying £2,675 per home to a Nature Fund.
- The fund will finance deer culling, new wetlands and a 1 km River Wensum restoration.
- The scheme replaces nutrient-neutrality rules that previously barred new homes from adding pollution to chalk streams.
- Government spokesperson said the plan will deliver more homes while boosting nature and local communities.