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I said at Second Reading that we do not need to have nature over housing or housing over nature. The idea that one needs to lose for the other to win is a false choice that many—I ask the Chief Whip to forgive me, I am afraid to say—even in my own party of late, seem to be making. This, and the wider debate, seems to be orchestrated as growth versus nature. If people would engage and talk to the many developers who are doing this, they would find that people out there want it, along with people like me who want us to build but to build more nature as well.