questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the Answer of 11 June 2025 to Question 56079 on Agriculture: Land Use, whether his Department plans to introduce (a) guidance and (b) thresholds to balance solar farm development with (i) the protection of landscape character and (ii) food production capacity in rural areas.
answerText: There are already robust measures in place to protect landscape, biodiversity and agricultural land, including comprehensive environmental assessments where relevant. The Government agrees that prime agricultural land should be safeguarded, and where a pr...
heading: Agriculture: Land Use