He told The Yorkshire Post: “There are a lot of issues with farmers feeling it is better, personally or financially, to sell land rather than carry on farming it but the vast majority of farmland that comes up for development is because a land agent or promoter will go to a farmer and say you can get planning permission for development on your land - that is how it is working.
Mr Wood added: “There is no integrated policy for looking at these things, but if we had that we could make much more informed decisions.”
That's what you get for having a government that wants permission to be granted for housing over anything else!!! So now, agricultural land is lost, and industrial land is lost - so we can't grow food or livestock or process them! so the cost of living spirals again!