Good Planning for Good Food
Transcript: To ‘create and protect’ spaces which food can be grown in localities. To use public growing spaces, such as, allotments to promote sustainable and healthy food. To enhance the quality of ‘productive green spaces in neighbourhoods’, to promote ‘biodiversity’. To promote ‘community cohesion’ Case Study 2 Localities which include food growing in their local plans To increase financial viability, farmers can diversify their businesses by upgrading or building new structures. Planners should assess planning permission requests based on the need for a sustainable food and farming system, in accordance with Planning Policy Statement 7. PPS7: “local planning authorities should be aware of the circumstances, needs and priorities of rural communities and businesses in their area.” Breckland Core Strategy (2009): “The diversification of existing rural enterprises and the development of new enterprises where a rural location is either environmentally or operationally justified will be supported, provided there are no significant detrimental...impacts.” What is access to food? How food shops are distributed. Whether food is available to everyone Accessibility Where might you find policy related to this? In retail sections of local plans In infrastructure related planning documents Large downturn of number of neighbourhood shops Sought a way of protecting the small “cornered” shops from larger retailers in London Recommended a further use class divide inside “A1-Shops” Stops switch away from food shops towards other types of shop. Natelson, S., White, S., (2011) 'Good Planning for Good Food', Sustain (Online) Available: http://www.sustainweb.org/pdf/Good_planning_for_good_food.pdf [Accessed: 03/12/14] Activity Cost of waste The built environment: improving diversity of available food Case Study Watts Farms, Kent Out of town retail centres and supermarkets often have a detrimental effect on smaller local businesses, by contributing to the closure of independent food shops, loss of jobs and decline in economic development within villages and town centres. Planning Policy Statement 4: “Local planning authorities should proactively plan to promote competitive town centre environments and provide consumer choice.” Creating and protecting local centres What it means? “That is what a zero waste Scotland means – not a country where we never throw anything away, but a new approach to making the most effective use of all resources, and avoiding wasting resources or making them unusable wherever we can.” – Lochhead, MSP. Main key points: Land use planning Waste regulation framework and infrastructure Sets education and awareness about waste management Targets: 70% recycling and maximum 5% to landfill for all waste in Scotland Role of planning: Identifying appropriate locations for all waste management facilities, along with providing policy framework Producing plans and layout of sites Any questions? Change in use class: Protection of "sole" shops as a need Good planning for good food promotes sustainable, bio-diverse communities, by encouraging the protection of land for growing food and the support of local produce. The government is in support of good planning for good food but at a local level, it is yet to be well established. The Sustain Alliance for Better Food and Farming produced a report on good planning for good food in 2011. Managing food waste in a planner's way Greenbelts: Watts Farms, Kent Food Waste Agriculture in the UK Richard Cantwell, Lucy Isham, Amirah Ahmad, Melissa Kenny Bristol City Council (2011) A Good Food Plan for Bristol (Online) Available: http://bristolfoodpolicycouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Bristol-Good-Food-Plan_lowres.pdf [Accessed 03/12/14] References Broomhill, Sheffield NPPF Promoting Healthy Communities Promote mixed used developments and to integrate spaces for food production into this. The protection of spaces for growing food e.g. allotments Small Holdings and Allotment Act, Section 23, 1908 Local authorities must protect, maintain and provide allotments. Allotment Act, Section 8 , 1925 ‘Allotments regarded as surplus to requirements may only be sold with the consent of the Secretary of State’ Land Settlement (Facilities) Act 1919 ‘Consent of the Secretary of State is required for the erection of any dwelling (excluding sheds or greenhouses) on allotment land’ Over 75% of the UK’s land is managed by farmers. Agriculture provides the majority of food in the UK as well as other services. Farming in the UK is continuing to decline. Planning can play a role in protecting the economic viability of farming and food distribution within the UK. Bristol’s Good Food Plan - Objective #5: “To minimise food waste by encouraging composting and the redistribution of good food that would otherwise be wasted.” Sheffield on a PLATE: Sheffield’s Universities and colleges working together, involving more than 10,000 students and 400 students. Recycling bins are provided in university accommodations to
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