land use framework

economic growth

The scramble for growth cannot come at any cost

“Focus on getting things built and stop worrying about the bats and the newts” This was the message from Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, in her speech at Oxford last week, where she laid out her strategy to ‘kickstart economic growth’. Among the key points of her speech were the government’s commitment to expanding […]

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Changing land use to meet nature & climate challenges

Why do we need the Land Use Framework? Land is a limited resource. The Royal Society estimates that the UK would need land twice the size of Wales to meet all the government targets set in recent years. Their report states that the government risks “overpromising” finite land with its multiple ambitions on farming, nature

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