NOT surprisingly Bill Wiggin (Opinion, September 14) hailed the Government’s recent announcement to remove the embargo on building within the Wye catchment without needing to demonstrate nutrient neutrality, thereby allowing 1,000 homes to be built.

The county’s acute shortage, especially of social housing and properly affordable properties, is well-understood and certainly needs urgent solution.

It is striking that our MP offers no apology for his Government’s role in allowing our rivers to be disastrously damaged by pollutants over a long period.

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He displays either ignorance or disingenuousness in claiming that housing and its associated infrastructure doesn’t leach phosphates; it can and does.

And phosphates are not the sole pollutants generated by new developments.

Happily, the House of Lords recognised the result will be irresponsibly harmful impacts on our already damaged environment and has voted against the Government.

Sir Bill Wiggin wrote: “The Government is already introducing much tougher sewage rules for water companies”.

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Again, no apologies for the Government having allowed a number of very wealthy companies, with astronomically paid directors, to pour ever-increasing amounts of raw sewage illegally into our rivers and onto our beaches while donating company profits to their shareholders rather than upgrading the treatment plants.

Sir Bill claims the Wye is going to recover. I sincerely hope it will, but I disagree with him, that if it does, it will be due to the actions of the present Government.

ROS BRADBURY

Kington