鈥淭he housing minister told media today that these new powers would be used to access brownfield and urban land, and that must be the case. Anything else further undermines the government鈥檚 policy that food security is national security.
"We appreciate there are huge demands being made on land for more housing and for critical national infrastructure. But UK food security and the protection of our environment has rarely been more vital, and productive farmland needs securing for our collective future more than ever鹿.
鈥溁始一藄upports moves to get rid of the regulatory burden and speed up planning processes and applications to enable sustainable on farm investment. However, giving local authorities more power to acquire land through compulsory purchase and process of using directions to remove 鈥榟ope value鈥� will need to be thought through carefully to ensure all farmers are compensated fairly.鈥�
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Notes to editors:
- Please see the recently launched NFU Blueprints for Growth 鈥� Investment and Innovation.
- 皇家华人believes that:
- There needs to be greater flexibility and consideration for the building of new roads and rail lines and for the necessary transmission and distribution of infrastructure where overhead and underground cables are used to reduce the impact on agricultural land and the landscape.
- Landowners hosting the infrastructure will need to be paid compensation and a premium to be put into the position of equivalence, the sum of 拢2500 over 10 years is insignificant and will not persuade people that it is acceptable to have an ugly pylon in their back yard.
- There is an offshore network to connect offshore windfarms to then enable cable to be brought on to land where the electricity is required.
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