Yes

Representation ID: 90764

Received: 24/02/2025

Respondent: Mr Tim Goodwin

Best and most versatile agricultural land should be safeguarded for future food production needs and is essential to ensure long-term agricultural sustainability.

Yes

Representation ID: 90899

Received: 24/02/2025

Respondent: Mr James Morris

The preservation of the best and most versatile agricultural land is crucial for meeting future food production demands and ensuring long-term agricultural sustainability. This land, rich in natural resources and optimal for cultivation, plays a vital role in maintaining food security and supporting diverse farming practices. Safeguarding it involves implementing policies that protect its quality and availability from urbanisation, environmental degradation, and other threats. By doing so, we can sustainably produce food, support rural economies, and maintain ecological balance. It is imperative to prioritise the conservation of this land to secure a sustainable food supply for generations to come.

Yes

Representation ID: 90919

Received: 24/02/2025

Respondent: Ms Emma Barber

Preserving the best agricultural land is essential for future food production and sustainability. This land, rich in resources and ideal for farming, supports food security and diverse practices. Safeguarding it requires policies to protect its quality and availability from urbanisation and environmental degradation. By conserving this land, we can sustainably produce food, support rural economies, and maintain ecological balance. Prioritising its conservation is crucial to securing a sustainable food supply for future generations.

Yes

Representation ID: 90962

Received: 24/02/2025

Respondent: Jason Lupton

The best and versatile agricultural land should be prioritised for food production, including animal feed.
This country and county needs to ensure there is adequate land to be self sufficient with food productivity.

Other

Representation ID: 91234

Received: 25/02/2025

Respondent: Radford Semele Parish Council

‘Radford Semele Parish Council reiterates its request that there is a statement emphasising
that the value of Grade 3b agricultural land is fully considered in planning decisions so as
much as possible of currently productive Grade 3b land is retained for food production.’

Other

Representation ID: 91592

Received: 26/02/2025

Respondent: Maxine Mayer

Whilst I do agree with the principle of the policy but it doesn't go far enough. It must be noted that much of the growth areas and settlements being considered along the A429 is BMV including the airfield, university campus -SG16, settlement X1. When making allocations officers must address the cumulative loss of BMV which is in current food production.

Yes

Representation ID: 91599

Received: 26/02/2025

Respondent: Mrs Sidney Syson

Protecting our food security is vey important hence the need to protect the best agricultural land.

Yes

Representation ID: 91727

Received: 26/02/2025

Respondent: Mr Geoff Norman

Sensible

Yes

Representation ID: 91800

Received: 26/02/2025

Respondent: Mrs Joanne Taylor

n/a

Yes

Representation ID: 91868

Received: 27/02/2025

Respondent: Mr Hanno Kirner

We need to protect our agricultural land so that Britain can support itself

Yes

Representation ID: 91937

Received: 27/02/2025

Respondent: Mrs Donna Goodwin

It is essential to ensure long-term agricultural sustainability that the best and most versatile agricultural land should be safeguarded for future food production needs.

Yes

Representation ID: 92272

Received: 28/02/2025

Respondent: Ms Isobel McLauchlin

We must safeguard our farming land, especially that which is the most versatile. It is essential to ensure our long term agricultural sustainability and in an uncertain world, with our growing population, we need to be as self sufficient as possible.

Yes

Representation ID: 92279

Received: 28/02/2025

Respondent: SolStar Power Limited

Agent: Enzygo

SolStar agrees with the general policy approach to safeguarding the best and most versatile agricultural
land as it is keeping with national policy, as expressed in paragraph 188 footnote 65 of the NPPF,.
SolStar Power agrees with the Draft Policy recognition to renewable energy generation and energy storage development on agricultural land.
It is recognised that renewable energy generation projects, such as solar farms, are a temporary use and during that time provide environmental benefits to the land.
SolStar consider that inclusion of the phrase ‘Developments should be assessed on a case by case basis
considering the merits and benefits of the scheme against any concluded impacts’ should be included within the policy or the justification of the policy, and the justification should clearly set out renewable energy development as being a suitable form of development that requires the use of agricultural land.

Yes

Representation ID: 92415

Received: 28/02/2025

Respondent: Mrs Daphne Tilley

Good quality agricultural land must NOT be swallowed up by Housing OR solar farms. Site B1 contains at least three working farms that contributes to our food supply. Nearly 40% of the UKs food is now imported. Losing vital farms will only increase that unacceptable figure. This is therefore NOT a sustainable plan if it is proposing to lose vital farmland. It cannot claim to be carbon neutral either. The contribution farmland makes to Biodiversity is invaluable and therefore this plan cannot claim to support biodiversity as such.

Yes

Representation ID: 92447

Received: 28/02/2025

Respondent: Ms Christine Slaughter

Protection of Best and Most Versatile Agricultural Land is essential to ensure long-term agricultural sustainability. The Clopton Quarter of SG18 is Grade 3 Best and Most Versatile Agricultural Land.

Other

Representation ID: 92524

Received: 28/02/2025

Respondent: Julian Brown

Productive Agricultural land should not be developed in any form. You cannot make future productive land and should not be given any consideration no matter how strong the case. Other sites should be explored within the county or within the UK for any said development wanting to develop on productive land.

No

Representation ID: 92662

Received: 28/02/2025

Respondent: Bex Thomson

No land in the green belt should be used

Yes

Representation ID: 92844

Received: 01/03/2025

Respondent: Mrs Carolyn Stacey

We must preserve our ability to be as self-sufficient in food as possible. This enhances both environmental (reduction of food miles/biodiversity) and economic (agricultural jobs and reduced need for costly food imports) sustainability.

Yes

Representation ID: 93029

Received: 01/03/2025

Respondent: Mr Dominic Momcilovic

High quality versatile agricultural land should be safeguarded for future food protection needs and is essential to ensure long-term agricultural sustainability.

Yes

Representation ID: 93050

Received: 01/03/2025

Respondent: Ms Alison Blake

And the land should be used to supply nearby communities as well as some sent to nearby urban areas.

Yes

Representation ID: 93219

Received: 01/03/2025

Respondent: Ms Martina Hunt

Best and Most Versatile Agricultural Land should be safeguarded for future food production needs and is essential to ensure long-term agricultural sustainability.

Other

Representation ID: 93234

Received: 01/03/2025

Respondent: Mr Kim Salmon

Established agricultural farm land should be protected in most cases, the different land grades will obviously be used for differently crops by type and livestock for grazing. Very important to ensure we preserve the ability to feed our nation. Additionally this land has a significant impact on maintaining biodiversity and wildlife. Urbanising rural communities and landscapes is strategically a bad idea

Other

Representation ID: 93360

Received: 02/03/2025

Respondent: Mr geoff marston

Agricultural land is going to be increasingly important to ensuring self sustainability in the UK , but likewise energy infrastructure, especially given the destabilisation of the political landscape in Europe. The plan should protect this land where possible and where development on poor land is agreed it should ensure all building is carbon neutral, has a net gain for biodiversity. All solar development should be higher off the ground and better policed than at present so wild flowers are actually allowed to grow or sheep to graze under them (as in the glossy pre planning fabrications shown to the communities)

No

Representation ID: 93618

Received: 02/03/2025

Respondent: Mr Christopher Bull

Given the climate and food security crisis in the UK Agricultural Land should be protected at all cost, even if it is in a growth strategy site and especially if it is in the Green Belt. The exclusion of high quality agricultural land from this policy if is in a Strategic growth site shows the local plan is not committed to this policy of protecting Agricultural land. this is a strategic error for future generations

Yes

Representation ID: 93692

Received: 02/03/2025

Respondent: Mrs Claire STEWART

I support this policy because the best and most versatile agricultural land must be protected for future food production. Safeguarding high-quality farmland ensures long-term agricultural sustainability, strengthens local food supply chains, and reduces dependence on imports. Once developed, this valuable land is lost forever, posing risks to future food security. Preserving it supports rural economies and provides environmental benefits. Sustainable planning should prioritize the protection of agricultural land, ensuring future generations have the resources needed to maintain food production while balancing responsible development.

Yes

Representation ID: 93754

Received: 02/03/2025

Respondent: Cllr David Armstrong

Yes, particularly the clear direction on renewables.

Yes

Representation ID: 93786

Received: 02/03/2025

Respondent: Mr George Power

Yes agricultural land should always be safeguarded. As the climate changes, food production will become more and more important and fertile land's destruction to build cheap homes must be prevented. The farmland of SG18 Clopton Quarter is a prime example of this land that must be protected.

Yes

Representation ID: 93822

Received: 02/03/2025

Respondent: Mr William Campbell

Strongly agree

Yes

Representation ID: 93836

Received: 02/03/2025

Respondent: Warwick District Green Party

Yes. Following recent controversies over planning for solar farms this direction is to be welcomed. Combined with a strong mandate elsewhere in the plan to support rooftop solar PV on all new residential and other buildings this should provide a strong framework to drive forward local renewable energy generation in the most appropriate places.

Yes

Representation ID: 93979

Received: 02/03/2025

Respondent: Mrs Sue Scurrah

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