8 FARM NEWS
JUN/JUL 2018 • farmers-mart.co.uk
NEW ENVIRONMENT LAW TO
DELIVER A GREEN BREXIT
A new Environmental Principles
and Governance Bill will ensure
environmental protections will not
be weakened as we leave the EU,
the government has confirmed.
A consultation has started on the
contents of the Environmental Prin-
ciples and Governance Bill, which
will establish a world-leading body
to hold government to account for
environmental outcomes.
The body will support our com-
mitment to be the first generation
to leave our environment in a
better state than that in which we
inherited it. It will provide scruti-
ny and advice as we protect and
enhance our precious landscapes,
wildlife and natural assets and
would be able to hold government
to account on environmental
legislation.
Subject to consultation, the
new body could specifically be
responsible for:
• providing independent scruti-
ny and advice on existing and
future government environ-
mental law and policy;
• responding to complaints
about government’s delivery
of environmental law; and
• holding government to
account publicly over its
delivery of environmental law
and exercising enforcement
powers where necessary.
The Government is also con-
While these principles are already
sulting on its intention to require
central to government environmen-
ministers to produce – and then
tal policy, they are not set out in one
have regard to –a statutory and
place besides the EU treaties. The
comprehensive policy statement
new Environmental Principles and
setting out how they will apply
Governance Bill will ensure govern-
core environmental principles as
ments continue to have regard to
they develop policy and discharge important environmental principles
their responsibilities. Currently
through the policy statement, which
environmental decisions made in
would be scrutinised by Parliament.
the UK – from improving air and
The consultation seeks views on
water quality to protecting en-
whether the principles to be con-
dangered species – are overseen
tained in the policy statement should
by the European Commission
be listed in primary legislation.
and underpinned by a number
The consultation, which will
of these principles, such as the
run for 12 weeks, seeks views on
precautionary principle, sustaina- the most effective way for the
ble development and the ‘polluter new body to hold government to
pays’ principle.
account, which would include, as
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‘ leave our
environment in a
better state than
that in which we
inherited it
’
a minimum, the power to issue
advisory notices. The consultation
asks what further enforcement
mechanisms may be necessary.
The Environmental Principles
and Governance Bill will be
published in draft in the autumn.
Public consultation on the envi-
ronmental principles policy state-
ment will follow in due course.
Stoodley Pike Ltd
STOODLEY Pike Ltd, is in its fourth year
of trading. – It is a business that has rapidly
grown. – However, this has come with some
headaches. Funding a growing business like
this has seriously taken its toll, on Managing
Director, Richard Walker. “without the support
of other local companies and suppliers, as we
have progressed, particularly through the past
8 months (they say the wettest since 1984), we
would not have survived the Winter”. We sim-
ply did not have enough meat on our bones. –
To say its been tough, - is an understatement.
Financing a business as progressive as
this one, that ‘is a hungry monster’ to keep
feeding and alive, has proved difficult. – But
we are through that now and have adapted
a completely new management approach.
We have taken on a more diverse range of
staff and are looking towards a new bright
future. It has been a huge learning curve
for Richard, in the regards of building up a
strong staff team, and more to the point,
being able to set deadline & delivery dates
and stick to them. – This is something that
has proved difficult earlier in the year,
when all our order book bottle necked due
to weather, staff and cash flow, which are
key to any growing business.
C
M
Y
CM
Good staff are key for survival. – good staff
and a good bank manager. – I feel that after
going round the block a few times, and having
the scars to prove it - that we now have the
right combination in place to recreate and re
direct the Stoodley Pike Ltd brand to a bright-
er future, after these dark Winter months.
We are looking forward to continuing to of-
fer a range of timber agricultural products, be
it from our lamb adopters, to our larger timber
framed buildings, and continue to supply and
service our Rural Customers across the North
of England.
Stoodley Pike Ltd is moving forward to a
bigger and brighter future, and like many
other rural businesses, leaving this past winter
behind as a distant memory.
MY
CY
CMY
K
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