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CLA fights for a Living and Working Countryside The delivery of landscape, biodiversity, jobs, homes and services must be underpinned by economic reality – that's the real message the Communities and Local Government Select Committee should have been given, according to the CLA, the Country Land and Business Association. CLA North East Director Angus Collingwood-Cameron said that the Select Committee's report had failed to acknowledge the needs of rural businesses and rural communities.
"The English countryside is a place where real people live and work. Without appropriate, equitable, well-designed development, the countryside - and those who manage it - will not be able to offer the jobs, housing and services that are vital for genuine economic, environmental and social sustainability in our rural communities."
There were, said Mr Collingwood-Cameron, strong concerns that the needs of people who live and work in rural areas - for jobs, homes and services – had been ignored at a national level and that this was now becoming apparent at a local level.
"Our rural areas have the potential to become an economic powerhouse of creativity, enterprise and opportunity through the balanced use of the presumption in favour of sustainable development. This doesn't mean concreting over the countryside – that is not something the CLA would ever support. However, we do need a realistic definition of "sustainable development". Restricting development because it is not served by public transport continues to condemn large areas of our countryside to the economic and social wilderness."
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