Thanks to Dottie for alerting me to this:

From the Guardian today, in 2025:

The environment secretary, Steve Reed, will announce a consultation into how the limited land in England should be used and where is best to farm, restore nature or build infrastructure. The finished blueprint will use the latest data to map where the areas with the best quality farmland and most potential for nature recovery are and be plugged into the planning matrix used by environment secretary, Ed Miliband, and housing secretary, Angela Rayner.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jan/31/land-use-plan-england-map-farming-nature-housing-solar-wind

No target date for the finished blueprint is as yet noted.

From the Scottish Government, largely unreported in the media, on 17 March 2011:

This is Scotland’s first Land Use Strategy and we believe it is the first of its kind anywhere in Europe. The scale and complexity of the issues around land use are challenging and the agenda for change which the Strategy sets out is equally challenging. Scotland’s land is a fundamental asset; without it we can neither prosper as an economy nor function as a nation. Our land resource is finite and in some cases fragile. We have a responsibility to future generations to care for our land and ensure that we do not compromise the choices they may wish to make in the future.

This Strategy reflects a shared agenda and will lead to the realisation of our Vision for sustainable land use across Scotland. There is very wide agreement on the high-level Objectives in this Strategy. We must all try to ensure that we do not lose sight of them as we develop our response to the Strategy and as we reflect on the implications for each of us in our industry, on our farm, in our town or village, or as we use land for recreation.

We expect that the Land Use Strategy will quickly become an important part of the decision-making process. We expect all public bodies to have regard to it as they carry out their functions. The Principles for Sustainable Land Use should be at the heart of all significant decisions which impact upon land. We also expect that other land managers will have regard to the Strategy when making decisions about the future deployment of effort and resources.

https://www.gov.scot/publications/getting-best-land-land-use-strategy-scotland/

So, UK Government leaps into action only 14 years later than the SNP Government in Scotland?

How is that going?

8% of UKthe population but 16% of the meat exports – 8% of the UK population but 31% of total UK food and drink exports

UK dependent on Scotland again with 8% of the population but 80% of the seed potatoes needed for food security