CPRE call for land strategy and new planning rules to guard food security

by West Midlands National Park
14/08/202314/08/2023
Big Picture (category), Food (category), Land Use (category), Water & Flooding (category)

Tags:agriculture environment flooding food Land Use strategy water

There’s been a hundred-fold increase in our best farmland lost to development in little more than a decade, new CPRE research has found. And 60% of our finest agricultural land is at risk of flooding. As a result, we’re telling government we need a land strategy and new planning rules to safeguard our food security.

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