CoFarm Cambridge is hosting an informal event at the farm. Led by Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC) and funded by WWF UK on 12th May, this is really important work which we are pleased to host. We wholeheartedly encourage you to come along and and share your thoughts if you can. We’re thrilled that Cambridge Sustainable Food CIC will be serving up a tasty seasonal lunch on the day. Our friends Abbey People CIO are also supporting the event. The listening event runs from 1030 to 1230, with lunch ready from 1230. More event details and a booking link from FFCC below:
We ask a lot of land. We need it to grow food, restore biodiversity and nature, decarbonise the economy and adapt to climate change – while also providing space for new homes, access to nature for leisure and wellbeing and the infrastructure for business, energy and transport. In England, there is currently no coordinated way of balancing all of these pressures.
Planners are often faced with agreeing the ‘least-worst’ development proposals. Local people have little say when their valued open countryside, green spaces, or even allotments are lost to other uses. We want to test ideas for a more strategic and effective approach that will support action to deliver net zero, nature recovery, clean air and water, economic development, and food production. A land use framework will also help individual landowners and farmers make long term plans as they face a raft of new support mechanisms; to help assess what their land is best used for in the context of the wider landscape.
We want to hear from people about the places where they live and work and what they value most there. We want to hear people’s hopes, fears and aspirations for their local environment and what they would like to improve. We’re interested in towns, villages, farms, landscapes and wildlife, food, roads, rivers, transport, heritage and employment. What changes are coming and how can they best be addressed? How can local people be involved in defining what Cambridgeshire is like in 20 years’ time?
We hope the meeting will be interesting and lively, and that you share your views. We will include a short introduction to the topic about how places have been changing over time and the competing pressures on land to open up the discussion.
These meetings will form part of a wider “tour” gathering views right across Cambridgeshire. They will all contribute to a Land Use Framework being developed by people and organisations right across Cambridgeshire.
PLEASE LET US KNOW THAT YOU’RE COMING USING THIS EVENTBRITE BOOKING LINK.
