Healthy Land, Secure Future: A Land Use Framework for Nature, Climate and Communities

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Landscape shot showing a path through two stone fences with green fields either side in the Yorkshire countryside. The sky is bright blue and sunny and a flock of birds are in flight.

By Hannah Wood, Strategy Deputy Director, and Fin Rylatt, Land Use Framework lead,  Natural England In this blog post, we explain how the new Land Use Framework sets out a path to clearer, more integrated ways of managing England’s land. The new Framework shows how nature, food production, clean energy and housing can complement each …

'LUF-t off' for a more strategic approach to growth and Nature

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Cator North Park, Kidbrooke Village, London, with integrated BNG, including wetland and wildflowers

By Tony Juniper CBE, Chair of Natural England As the country seeks long-term solutions to our most pressing problems – how to build much-needed homes and infrastructure, safeguard food production and halt and reverse the decline of Nature – we …