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Blooming marvellous
Award winning CLA Yorkshire member, Jamie Dunstan, will be going for gold at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this summer.
[In_Your_Area/Yorkshire/Regional News] - [February 4th, 2010]
CLA says Conservative broadband pledge is good but not soon enough
The CLA today (Monday, 1 February 2010) welcomed the Conservative’s pledge to introduce superfast broadband for all by 2017 - but said the UK needs an “adequate and effective” broadband speed to every home much sooner.
[In_Your_Area/Yorkshire/Regional News] - [February 4th, 2010]
Report could do more harm than good says CLA
The CLA says a report on Green Belts jointly published by Natural England and the Campaign to Protect Rural England could do more harm than good.
[In_Your_Area/Yorkshire/Regional News] - [January 28th, 2010]
Landowners and conservationists join forces in vision for the CAP
The CLA and RSPB today (Wednesday, 27 January) launch their joint vision for the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).
[In_Your_Area/Yorkshire/Regional News] - [January 27th, 2010]
Government planning fee freeze is welcomed by CLA
The CLA said today (Monday, 25 January) that it is pleased that the Government has leant its support to rural economic recovery by freezing planning application and appeal fees for one year in a bid to stimulate new projects.
[In_Your_Area/Yorkshire/Regional News] - [January 25th, 2010]
Supermarket ombudsman offers turning point for UK food producers says CLA
The CLA said today (Thursday, 21 January) that Consumer Minister Kevin Brennan’s announcement that the Government is to introduce an ombudsman to enforce the Groceries Supply Code of Practice is “long overdue”.
[In_Your_Area/Yorkshire/Regional News] - [January 25th, 2010]
CLA says Government is ignoring industry’s advice on biogas
The CLA says that Defra’s and the Environment Agency’s draft regulation on anaerobic digestors would deter farmers from installing them.
[In_Your_Area/Yorkshire/Regional News] - [January 25th, 2010]
Food campaign goes for gold
An expanding Yorkshire Wolds rape seed oil producer is supporting the CLA’s Just Ask campaign aimed at encouraging consumers to buy locally produced food. Gold from the Wold has become the latest firm to sign up to the rural economy experts’ initiative,...
[In_Your_Area/Yorkshire/Regional News] - [January 25th, 2010]
CLA says Government rural broadband commitment does not go far enough
The CLA said today (Thursday, 7 January) that Lord Mandelson's commitment to provide £1 billion of investment into next-generation-access broadband through the proposed 50p broadband levy is welcome but does not go far enough.
[In_Your_Area/Yorkshire/Regional News] - [January 8th, 2010]
CLA lobbying notches up significant successes in new planning policy statement
Lobbying by the CLA has led to major improvements of PPS4 (Planning Policy Statement 4: Planning for Sustainable Economic Growth), unveiled recently by the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG).
[In_Your_Area/Yorkshire/Regional News] - [January 6th, 2010]