SUPPORT: As rural advisers, we understand the importance of incorporating clear and precise policy within the Local Plan to support employment development opportunities for farmers and landowners.
Opportunities for the diversification of rural businesses, as supported through Policy DM8, will be particularly important over the coming years as farmers and landowners face the most challenging of circumstances including those posed by Brexit, the ongoing effects of Covid-19, implications of the war in Ukraine and the renewed focus on moving towards Net Zero by 2040. Additional employment opportunities in the rural economy provide essential support to farming and rural businesses and provide benefits to the broader economy.
Policy DM8 provides the essential opportunities needed to ensure that rural businesses can continue to operate in a sustainable and viable way providing long term stability for the rural economy and supporting job creation.