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You can now watch the recording of the successful Policy Influencers Network meeting and the excellent presentations by our colleagues in the midlands and east regions: we’ll be looking for resoruces to take this work forward. Do get in touch is you have any thoughts. https://www.urbanagriculture.org.uk/ongoing-projects/influencing-policy/

A new government – there is immediate talk of new towns in the greenbelt. The word greybelt has crept into the discourse. Housing is of course necessary and it has to go somewhere. As well as transport and social infrastructure, any new towns and villages should embrace the vision of garden cities – and must

Whilst we support new home building – people have to live somewhere – we also think that a new holistic vision for England’s greenbelt is needed. Otherwise the greenbelt will be eroded away with unsustainable car-dependent housing developments. We want to see sustainable food growing, homes for land workers, and nature restoration – as well

You can now watch the stimulating session on Re-imagining the Greenbelt (Policy Influencers Network Group on 14 March). https://www.youtube.com/@urbanagricultureconsortium8120/videos We’d be happy to talk to you about replicating this innovative work in your area. Email maddy@greenfuture.org.uk

You can now access the recordings of the PING held on 17 October here The next PING will be in January/February 2024 and will be looking at our recent work on re-imagining the greenbelt around Bristol and Bath.

UAC is now in our fourth year.  Our initial core grant from Esmée Fairbairn has come to an end,  so we are pleased to report that we are still here (!) and evolving with a patchwork mix of projects, grants and contracts, and we are partners in a number of co-designed initiatives across the UK… more details

October 2023 UAC was delighted to have been contracted to undertake a feasibility study into new farmstart projects by Nottinghamshore County Council. We think this is the first such study in the UK to be commissioned by a County Council – and we hope it will inspire other local authorites to look at farmstarts and

Latest News / July 2023 An Oral History of the Environmental Movement.  www.rhul.ac.uk/ohem  UAC’s Jeremy Iles is now working on an additional role with Royal Holloway, University of London.  Jeremy is part of a team undertaking a three-year oral history of the environmental movement. Work started on the project in September 2022 and the first interviews are now

In April, Maddy (co-lead of UAC) was asked by Mary Stevens at Friends of the Earth experiments programme, to bring together evidence and reflect on the question of ‘How to map neglected spaces for community=led growing’. This will help to inform FoE’s Postcode Gardener project – which is developing a self-sustaining model for community-led cultivation