Michelmores Agriculture Podcast Michelmores LLP

This week, Elizabeth Newson, Cheryl Brady and Richard Walford talk about Strategic Land and how you can protect your land for potential future development with a focus on the importance of watercourses, and issues of water scarcity and knowing the extent of your land and where it starts and ends and how to deal with gaps between ownership. Strategic land is the broad term given to land with potential to develop in the mid to long-term encompassing the process of site assembly, promotion for planning consent all the way through to ultimate delivery into a developable asset.

This week, Chloe Vernon-Shore and Rachel O'Connor talk about the Marine Net Gain, other developments in the Blue Economy and how effective water management can be beneficial in supporting the wider food systems transformation.

In this episode, Alexandra Watson and Ben Sharples talk about Natural Capital, covering some of the technicalities arising in deals to secure Biodiversity Net Gain, Nutrient Neutrality, and Landscape Recovery as the regulatory position develops following the recent secondary legislation arising from the Environment Act.

This week Vivienne Williams and Caroline Baines talk about the new Landlord and Tenant Code of Practice which has recently been published, changes to Agricultural Holdings Act tenancies which come into effect later this year and how tenants are becoming involved in new environmental agreements regarding natural capital assets.

This week, Adam Corbin and Iain Connor talk about:


Food labelling developments including the Food Standards Agency's campaign highlighting the risks to people with animal based allergies of food labelled as "vegan" and the Oatly AB case relating to the use of the term "milk" for non-diary products.
European developments in respect of the use of geographical indications which will impact anyone selling into the EU.
The Thatcher's Cider copycat product case against Aldi.
Developments from the Competition & Markets Authority in its attempt to crack down on greenwashing.

This week, Harriet Grimes and Fergus Charlton talk about what permissions already exist and how to obtain planning permission for the development of renewable energy schemes with a focus on developments on agricultural land.