Transcript Slide 1

Land Use Futures –
Making the most of land
in the 21st Century
Making the most of Staffordshire’s land now
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What local people want (and don’t
want)
What the nation needs
Legacy
Capacity
Existing problems
Planning reforms and localism
Energy and climate change targets
Halting biodiversity loss
Improving water quality
Increasing food supply
Economic recovery
Meeting housing needs
Lack of certainty about the future
•Climate change
•Demographic change
•Changing spatial
distribution of
economic
development
•New policy
frameworks
•Technological change
Being strategic - growth areas mapped onto
grade 1 agricultural land
Being strategic - climate change and flood risk
Land management – meeting policy
objectives
For example, farmland managed to:
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Provide food
Contribute to energy production
Improve water quality
Support biodiversity
Help manage flood risk
Support recreation
Land management - practical measures
A “positive” policy framework
•What are your land
assets?
•What is the land capable
of producing?
•What do people want?
•What might people need
in the future?
• What are the wider and
long term impacts of
change?
•What is holding back
progress?
What could people in the future value land in
staffordshire for?