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RDE 359 - Review of agricultural land take to development

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01/ The notice

Key facts

Value: £49,494Estimated value stated in the notice
Deadline (UK time): Sun 3 Dec 2023, 12:00 GMTA deadline does not apply to this historical notice. The source records Sun 3 Dec 2023, 12:00 GMT, which is not an open deadline.
Published: 21 Dec 2023
Region: Any region

02/ The brief

What the notice says

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The Soils Team within Natural England are seeking to commission a research project to undertake a rapid,

desk-based review to gather evidence on the amount of agricultural land take occurring as a result of

development, including an assessment of the recent loss of high quality agricultural land (i.e. Best and Most

Versatile (BMV) agricultural land), and an analysis of this against previous assessments to indicate whether

and how land take is changing, and reflecting current policy.

The Agricultural Land Classification (ALC) system was developed by MAFF (now part of Defra and the Welsh

Government) in the mid 1960's to map the distribution of agricultural land quality across England and

Wales, to a common standard. This was to characterise agricultural land quality and enable scarce high quality land to be protected from loss to development, through the planning system.

This project was awarded by NE

03/ Classification

CPV codes

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73000000
73200000 73200000

04/ History

Releases of this notice

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21 Dec 2023
Contract notice
Contract notice published 21 December 2023.
Release 60bc6ab0-15b2-4ab1-887b-63e585610b76
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05/ Limits

What the source does not tell us

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06/ Questions

About this notice

NE published this notice.

Estimated value stated in the notice: £49,494.

08/ Related

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