FFCC Land Use Workshops Report
LUNZ Hub partners, the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission (FFCC) ran four workshops across England in April 2025, to support Defra in its Consultation on Land Use. This workshop report provides in-depth workshop synopses, an overview of key challenges and recurring themes, and the extensive findings resulting from the workshops.
The workshops were facilitated by FFCC, and participants were invited to ensure a variety of relevant experience and opinion. The workshops addressed both the core questions of the land use consultation and discussed how a land use framework would enable better decision making more broadly. The workshops were held in Cumbria and Northumberland, Cambridgeshire, Gloucestershire and Devon. A broad range of sectors were represented – farming and land management, food, nature, water, development, planning, energy. education, local government and governance, community groups, national landscapes and local businesses as well as others.
Georgie Barber, Land Use Lead at the FFCC and LUNZ Hub UK National Team Lead, outlines some of the recurring themes across the workshops:
"The four workshops reflected different land use pressures in different parts of England, but also highlighted the depth of knowledge of, and engagement in, land use concerns on the ground. It was clear that participants recognised the complexity of land use decision making and wanted a robust pathway to implementing a Land Use Framework in a way that would support multifunctional outcomes in place. This report discusses the sticking points and the broad agreements that emerged from these workshops, and recommends further testing for delivery of a LUF."Georgie Barber, Land Use Lead at the FFCC and LUNZ Hub UK National Team Lead
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