Hundred-fold increase in our best farmland lost to development in little more than a decade, new CPRE research has found.

Almost 14,500 hectares of the country’s best agricultural land, which could grow at least 250,000 tonnes of vegetables a year, has been permanently lost to development in just 12 years.

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