Agriculture: Land Use
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the Land Use Framework on Best and Most Versatile farmland in Lincolnshire.
Answered by Mary Creagh
The National Planning Policy Framework safeguards the best and most versatile land, which is the land most valuable for food production.
Where significant development of agricultural land is demonstrated to be necessary, areas of poorer quality land should be preferred to those of a higher quality.
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