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CLA members own and manage approximately half the rural land in England and Wales and run over 250 different types of businesses; the resulting expertise puts us in a unique position to formulate policies and lobby effectively on issues that affect our members.

CLA professional advisers represent the interests of members at all stages in the policy development and legislative process, often before most people know there is an issue. We regularly succeed in effecting significant change.

We influence Government policy at local, national and European level by arguing our members’ case from a strong base of evidence, informing key decision-makers and opinion-formers of our members’ needs.

Our advisers research new opportunities so that our members are prepared for future challenges.

CLA is your voice in to Government. Find out more in this section about how the CLA works to protect the interests of landowners both now and in the future.

Latest Policy Work


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Heritage and the problem with claims of “substantial harm” CLA member experiences wanted of the Rural Payment Agency’s customer service complaints procedure Make your environmental management count CLA/Smiths...
[Policy Work/Working for You] - [6 February 2012]

WG – A Strategic Monitoring Framework for the Planning SystemWG – A Strategic Monitoring Framework for the Planning System
CLA Wales has recently replied to the Welsh Government's consultation on a Strategic Monitoring Framework for the Planning System. The response is in the form of a questionnaire and is attached.
[In_Your_Area/Wales/Consultation responses] - [2 February 2012]

The Penfold Review and forthcoming heritage legislationThe Penfold Review and forthcoming heritage legislation
The Government's autumn 2011 Penfold Review implementation report contains a number of proposals for heritage legislation. These could in particular significantly improve the listed building consent system. This CLA initial draft response looks at how...
[Policy Work/Consultation responses] - [2 February 2012]

Welsh Government - Business Rate Policy Review - Call for EvidenceWelsh Government - Business Rate Policy Review - Call for Evidence
CLA Wales has set out its response to the call for evidence below
[In_Your_Area/Wales/Consultation responses] - [1 February 2012]

Renewable Energy
Renewable Energy – Government moves to end uncertainty about support for solar Today 31 January, leading green media companies agree a blackout on misleading claims by solar installers James Murray, editor of BusinessGreen, said the aim of the...
[Policy Work/Renewable Energy] - [31 January 2012]

New Rural Policy functions within Government and the proposed abolition of the Commission for Rural CommunitiesNew Rural Policy functions within Government and the proposed abolition of the Commission for Rural Communities
Defra is considering abolishing the Commission for Rural Communities and transferring its responsibilities to the recently formed Rural Policy Unit within Defra itself. The CLA supports this approach, but considers it essential that the unit has a...
[Policy Work/Consultation responses] - [31 January 2012]

National Heritage Protection PlanNational Heritage Protection Plan
The National Heritage Protection Plan which commenced formally in 2011 is supposed to direct English Heritage's work on Heritage Protection. The CLA sits on its Advisory Board. This consultation response says (see especially Q2) that the NHPP continues...
[Policy Work/Consultation responses] - [26 January 2012]

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House of Commons Efra Committee CLA and NFU broker deal for farmers and landowners on HS2 route CLA secures manual payments for 2011 SPS claimants suffering ongoing delays CLA/Smiths Gore Rural Economy Index Request for...
[Policy Work/Working for You] - [24 January 2012]

This document is only available to logged in members. Nature Improvement Areas (NIAs)Nature Improvement Areas (NIAs)
Nature Improvement Areas – do you manage land in a candidate site? Find out below. Within the Natural Environment White Paper published in June, the government recognised the successes of ‘landscape scale’ working (where collective...
[Policy Work/Nature Improvement Areas] - [24 January 2012]

Planning and Housing
CLA Briefing Note - Localism Act 2011 - Assets of Community Value This briefing note provides a basic introduction to the Assets of Community Value (ACV) provisions introduced by the Localism Act 2011. This briefing note does not take account of, as...
[Policy Work/Planning and Housing] - [20 January 2012]

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The Advisory Services are made available to members on the basis that members' rights to compensation and the liability (if any) of CLA and its officers and/or its staff advisers, are restricted in the following ways. In the event of any advice given by any CLA staff adviser being given negligently or otherwise being incorrect no liability whatsoever is accepted by the CLA or its officers or by its staff advisers concerned

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Please note that whilst the advisers are able to advise on a wide range of subjects relating to land ownership, they cannot act in place of a member's own solicitor, accountant, surveyor and tax specialist by, for example, drafting documents or corresponding on their behalf and may be precluded, by the rules of their own professions, from advising one CLA member against another CLA member in the case of conflict.

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