Land sold for houses isn't the cause though is it?
Ordnance Survey data suggests that all the buildings in the UK - houses, shops, offices, factories, greenhouses - cover 1.4% of the total land surface. Looking at England alone, the figure still rises to only 2%. Buildings cover less of...
What's farming? Seriously.
To get around the term agricultural land you only have to have a few "pet" sheep, as little as 4. You can't force people to commercial farm.
A lot of land bought by the super rich is taken out of production. I live on a country estate bought 25 years ago, over 3000 acres. Hasn’t seen any farming activity in all those years.
I'll give it one more go.
Firstly Brexit.
Farmers were no different to the rest of us in voting patterns.
They were however targeted directly. The Common Agricultural Policy was costing the government far more than what our farmers were getting out of it. The leavers promised the farmers...
Have you really?
I'm off this thread far too many who know f*** all about the countryside and farming google shit and become an authority. Pointless arguing.
Enjoy your artisan bread.
You do realise the classification of a farm includes non producing ones with horses on? Many smallholdings with farm in their name are no more than large gardens with big pets.