Resident asks North Somerset Council Executive to declare a Food Security Emergency. Show your support for local farmers by contacting your district councillors, NSC Planning Dept & MP.
On the 17 July 2024 a resident addressed North Somerset Council Executive asking them to call a Food Security Emergency. This was based on the fact that, if the council has called a Climate and Nature Emergency, and food depends on both the climate and nature, then it follows that there will be a food security issue.
Contact info:
- North Somerset, represented by Labour MP Sadik Al-Hassan Weston-super-Mare, represented by Labour MP Dan Aldridge Wells and Mendip Hills, represented by Liberal Democrat MP Tessa Munt
- Distr Cllr Solomon and District Cllr Porter
- Bleadon Parish Council
- North Somerset District Councillors
- North Somerset Council Planning Policy Team regarding the Local Plan
CORRESPONDENCE WITH NORTH SOMERSET COUNCIL SUPPORTING FARMERS Compare land protect for agrigulture Policy DP53 to protection for open space and recreation DP52 Also DP8 (Efficient use of land) | |
| DATE | TOPIC |
NSC & WECA Food Security Plans, Strategies and Policies Minuted respomse (24OCT25 PDF) Extract "National security risks, like food security, are managed through government policy rather than at local authority level. However, as set out in a reply shared with .... the Health and Wellbeing Board, there are a range of ways that we work to improve outcomes connected to food and we will continue to focus on what benefits we can bring to our local communities" Food processing and distribution not production? | |
Local Devolution Programme and land use referencing Small Holdings and Allotments Act - awaitng response as of 18NOV25 | |
Member of the public addressed NSC Health & Wellbeing Board 29JUL24 and 30OCT24 with response published in 12FEB25 minutes item 22 additional documents. | |
BOB response to NSC Local Plan Regulation 19 - Additional Sites Consultation Thousands of new houses planned for North Somerset - Bleadon was originally scheduled for 42 houses at the quarry - now potentially 191! From approx 15% village increase to 55% increase!! | |
| Response to Cllr Canniford following Regulation 19 - Additional Sites Consultation at the library | |
| Member of public sought "...information about the Council’s position with respect to the long-term effects of eating ‘alternative” foods, with less dairy and meat together with her view that the Board should prioritise and protect farming, dairy production and related land, to deliver natural food and include this in all North Somerset Council policies, plans and activities" (see published response 12FEB25) | |
| NSC Executive meeting re: Food Security, Rural Culture & WECA (NSC Minutes and response in Appendix 1 pg12 clearly indicating that N Somerset is not food secure, only Broadly!!) No clear answers to emailed questions? | |
| NSC Executive meeting re: Food Security & WECA (NSC Minutes and response no published in minutes?) | |
| NSC Health and Wellbeing Board - resident spoke re: dairy, farming and nutritition of alternative food (NSC Minutes and see published response 12FEB25) | |
| NSC Transport Climate and Communities Policy and Scrutiny Scrutiny Panel - request for update following 06DEC23 and 30NOV23 addresses to NSC | |
| NSC Exec - resident requests a Food Security Emergency | |
19DEC23 &
| Request for support for farming to all NSC Town & Parish Councils |
| Presentation at NSC Executive Committee Regarding concerns over Farming, Food Production and Food Security |
30NOV23 incl Farm Video
| NSC Transport, Climate and Communities Policy and Scrutiny Panel |
| Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) SPD Consultation responsebio |
| Draft Rural Strategy Considerations (still unpublished by NSC, draft due end of Jan 24) |
| Previous BOB Local Plan presentation and April 2022 Consultation submissions |
Related links:
 | CO2Coalition website and Quiz |
 | Engaging Local Authorities Sustainable Food Places 2018 (PDF) |
 | Bridport Food Security Plan (PDF) |
 | New Sustainable Food & Farming Conference for the South West 22-23 November 2024 Bath & West Showground and Global Summit Version |
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