Delivering better integrated land use decision-making: evidence review

Grounded Insight / CPRE: Integrating Land Use Review, August 2025

Land is under increasing pressure to deliver multiple objectives – from energy, housing and transport infrastructure to timber, food, nature recovery, flood and drought management – all whilst reducing emissions. Achieving government objectives at different levels and across sectors is only possible with an integrated approach to managing land use change and its impacts. The effectiveness of Department for the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs’ (Defra) Land Use Framework (LUF), due to be published later in 2025, will rest on the systems, processes and structures by which it is put into practice both locally and regionally.