The government’s land use strategy requires around a tenth of England’s farmland to stop being used for agriculture and instead help deliver new infrastructure and housing, provide environmental and climate benefits, and ‘fix the foundations for resilient long-term economic growth’.

Around a further tenth will have to be converted to low-carbon use such as heath or woodland by 2050 if the country is to meet its climate targets.

Not only will this change the look of much of our landscape, and arguably not for the better, but planting solar panels and executive homes where sheep and cattle now graze threatens both food security and farming, as well as our visitor economy here in the South Hams.

To discuss the implications of what it will mean for both our farmers and the rest of us we will be joined by Professor Michael Winter OBE and Sir Harry Studholme.