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<blockquote data-quote="Goweresque" data-source="post: 6715360" data-attributes="member: 818"><p>There is one thing above all others that those devising these schemes must address - namely that whatever a landowner signs up to must be reversible at the end of the scheme. That is to say no landowner is going to sign up to long term schemes of whatever nature if there is any possibility, however remote, that at the end of it he will be unable to return to farming it in the way he was prior to entry. </p><p></p><p>Tied into this is the risk of political change - these sort of schemes will be long term ones, maybe several decades. That is eons in political time, and anyone signing such a contract is open to huge amounts of risk that the political wind will change. Contracts would need to be 100% binding on the State in its entirety, not just the body (such as the RPA or Defra) who is the countersignature. Its no good a landowner signing with one part of government, only for another part to change their rules afterwards. </p><p></p><p>For example a contract with Defra might say that the landowner had the right to return his land to agriculture at its end. Then Natural England come along halfway through and say 'We've changed our rules on what qualifies as an SSSI, your land now can't be reverted to agriculture' and the farmer is left in limbo, having to fight some interminable legal battle to get his contract upheld. </p><p></p><p>Its not the specifics of any given scheme that is the problem, its controlling the State over the long term that will be the issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Goweresque, post: 6715360, member: 818"] There is one thing above all others that those devising these schemes must address - namely that whatever a landowner signs up to must be reversible at the end of the scheme. That is to say no landowner is going to sign up to long term schemes of whatever nature if there is any possibility, however remote, that at the end of it he will be unable to return to farming it in the way he was prior to entry. Tied into this is the risk of political change - these sort of schemes will be long term ones, maybe several decades. That is eons in political time, and anyone signing such a contract is open to huge amounts of risk that the political wind will change. Contracts would need to be 100% binding on the State in its entirety, not just the body (such as the RPA or Defra) who is the countersignature. Its no good a landowner signing with one part of government, only for another part to change their rules afterwards. For example a contract with Defra might say that the landowner had the right to return his land to agriculture at its end. Then Natural England come along halfway through and say 'We've changed our rules on what qualifies as an SSSI, your land now can't be reverted to agriculture' and the farmer is left in limbo, having to fight some interminable legal battle to get his contract upheld. Its not the specifics of any given scheme that is the problem, its controlling the State over the long term that will be the issue. [/QUOTE]
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