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Ministers have set out a new Government Estate Nature Plan covering more than 577,000 hectares of Government-owned land in England. The Government said the plan would support nature recovery, climate adaptation and the resilience of public services.
The plan covers roughly 4% of England’s land and is intended to replace fragmented site-by-site action with a more coordinated approach across the Government estate. Ministers said it would help protect critical public services from the effects of climate change.
The measure forms part of the Government’s wider environmental programme and comes alongside renewed scrutiny of climate policy in Parliament. The Government said the estate plan would allow public land to be used more strategically for resilience, biodiversity and service protection.