Field Notes · 20 February 2025
Field Notes: Consultation on Land Use
Sue Pritchard discusses the government’s recent Consultation on Land Use - and how a Land Use Framework can be most effective.
Introducing Field Notes, our new ‘quick listens’ podcast series that delves into some of the critical issues in food, farming and land use – and the radical and practical solutions at hand.
First up is a field note from FFCC Chief Exec Sue Pritchard, who interrogates an issue that’s been making headlines in recent weeks: the government’s Consultation on Land Use and the incoming #LandUseFramework.
In this episode, Sue covers:
- Some background to the Land Use Framework and our pilots, including how Michael Barbour’s Public Value Framework informed our work
- Why maps are a very important tool within the framework process, but are not sufficient
- How real multifunctional land use can create thriving rural communities and economies
- Why working at different scales is so important, from local and catchment to county and national
- What a Land Use Framework needs to ultimately do to be effective
Listen in full below: