The valuable agricultural lands will be protected from housing, solar panels and wild winds under the new Land use frameworkThe government announced.
The Minister of Environment, Steve Reed, will announce a consultation on how the land is limited England It should be used and where is the best to grow, restore nature or build infrastructure.
the End of the scheme The latest data will be used to plan it, as areas with the best agricultural land are connected and most of the capabilities of nature restore in the planning matrix used by the Minister of Environment, Ed Miliband, and Minister of Housing, Angela Rainer. They will be frustrated by planning developments in areas with a sign of agriculture and nature.
Climate breakdown risk will also be included in the frame, with areas highlighting data that is likely to increase floods or corrosion. This will help in planning housing location as well as how to protect agricultural lands and nature from these risks.
Tom Lancaster, Land Analyst, Food and Agriculture in energy The Climate Intelligence Unit said: “The English farmers have just suffered from the second worst registered harvest after the winter of severe rains, driven by climate change. We will need to use more lands to adapt to these extreme letters and make our cultivation more flexible, in addition to planting trees and restoring peat that Carbon will absorb, restore nature and thus reduce the risk of flooding.
This framework is important for the goals of climate and nature in the UK because the reversal of the decline in nature by 2030 seems far from hand, and nature groups have long argued that a plan is needed to achieve this.
The frame will not include directives about what to cultivate, as the guardian understands. About 85 % of the lands that feed the UK are committed to animal agriculture. the Food strategy by Henry Diblby Commissioned by the previous governorate government, I found that for a sustainable future, this must be reduced, which led to a 30 % reduction in the average amount of meat consumption.
