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CLA welcomes plans to
support farmers and rural communities
THE Country Land and Business
Association Limited. (CLA),
on 6 January 2016, in the North, has welcomed new plans to improve farming
resilience announced by Defra Secretary Liz Truss at the Oxford Farming
Conference. The CLA, which represents landowners, farmers and rural
businesses throughout the North, said it welcomed the drive towards further
de-centralisation of decision making to farmers and local communities.
CLA North Regional Director Dorothy
Fairburn said:- "Around the region farmers and land managers provide a
wealth of solutions to flooding. The CLA will continue to make the case for
use of effective land management practices to 'slow the flow' of water and
will play a full part in Defra's review. Local partnerships such as Internal
Drainage Boards also have a track record of managing flood risks efficiently
and effectively. They, as well as groups such as the Cumbrian Floods
Partnership, are a great example of local decision making that works because
they are run by local people with a direct interest in pragmatic solutions
for flood prevention. We need more partnerships and services like this in
flood risk areas where they do not already exist. We will be asking
Ministers for greater clarity on how they see the development of more
partnerships and the raising of money through local Tax raising powers.
These have to be deployed carefully and only on the basis of consent of
local landowners and other businesses."
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