Env Info Request: How much Somerset farmland has been taken out of food production for Phosphate mitigation credits?

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Dave Orr
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Dear Somerset Council,

Environmental Information Request:

Q1. How much Somerset farmland (in hectares and as a percentage of total Somerset farmland) has been taken out of food production for Phosphate mitigation credits?

Q2. Does Somerset Council have a policy to protect food security and productive farmland across Somerset, where good quality and higher grade farmland is not allowed to be set aside from food production, by being used for Phosphate mitigation (as part of its current nutrient neutrality policy)?

Yours faithfully,

Dave Orr

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Dear  Dave Orr
 
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Thank you for your request for information about  Farmland that has been
taken out of food production for Phosphate mitigation credits  which we
received on 10 September 2024 .

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Dear Dave Orr
 
Thank you for your request for information received on 10 September 2024.
 
Please find attached our response to your request.
 
Yours faithfully

Jo Adams
Data Protection Records and Information Request Officer
 
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