Extract from Lords debate on Land Use Framework - Oct 28

Baroness Young of Old Scone (Lab):...At the local level, there are many experiments in the Oxford-Cambridge Arc.  There is an integrated land use pilot in Devon, supported by the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, and I declare an interest as a commissioner for that commission. Various local authorities are trying natural capital approaches. The spatial scale at which such initiatives are appropriate will vary but they all need some sort of strategic framework from government. If areas next door to each other are using different systems and approaches, it will be difficult to get the higher-level spatial scale that is needed for some of these issues to be resolved in a way that is understood by local people...

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