Sustainable housing - Media Briefing 17th July 2008
Sustainable housing - it's back to the land!
Amidst all the doom and gloom in the housing market and controversy about so callled eco-towns, one idea just keeps on growing. Updated, post credit crunch, diffuse development makes more sense than ever.
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Farming Pictures - Media Briefing 2nd October 2007.
SNAP! - New resource keeps the outdoor classroom open.
A new online resource is announced today with the opening of UKagriculture.com's farming picture library. Featuring over a 1000 topical images in high resolution, the library is designed to help teachers, students and pupils in the Year of Food and Farming.
Diffuse development - Media Briefing 28th February 2007.
www.ukagriculture.com proposes a novel and sustainable solution to the UK’s housing crisis.
Britain seems to have had a housing crisis for as long as many people can remember. Changing demographics and household structure have conspired, with inadequate supply, to limit the availability of homes and force prices to unaffordable levels for many. Almost everyone has a view as to what they don’t want but there seems little consensus on a solution to which society at large can agree.
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Hedgerow trees - Media Briefing November 8th 2006.
www.ukagriculture.com calls on newly created Natural England to help farmers and landowners foster a new generation of hedgerow trees.
Hedgerow trees have always played an important role in the countryside both culturally and environmentally. Hedgerow trees were probably in their heyday immediately after the Second World War. However, between 1950 and 1990 their numbers significantly reduced – a result of a combination of factors, notably changing field patterns, the mechanisation of agriculture and Dutch Elm disease. Despite their decline they remain one of the UK’s most cherished landscape features.
