Page: 2. The national policy context
In England, the National Planning Policy Framework sets out the overall objectives for planning policy and decisions.
Food for the Planet
Blog: Intensive livestock MIA: Sustain responds to the Animal Welfare Strategy
While the strategy shows real progress on cages and crates, we will see more animal suffering in industrial animal production unless the government invests in sustainable farming.
Sustain | Friday 16 January 2026
Blog: The government's climate strategy is leaving farmers behind
Despite food and farming representing a third of total UK emissions, the government’s Carbon Budget and Growth Delivery Plan does not support farmers to lead green transition.
Food for the Planet | Thursday 6 November 2025
Page: Sustain Strategy 2026-2030
Sustain is a powerful alliance of organisations and communities working together for a better system of food, farming and fishing. The Sustain alliance brings together around 100 organisations nationally – and hundreds more at local and regional level – cultivating the movement for change.
What we do
News: Sustain welcomes government commitment to a Horticulture Growth Strategy
Advocacy brings long-awaited opportunity to shape how the country will grow more fruit and veg, support good jobs, and build a fairer, greener food system.
Sustain | Monday 10 November 2025
Blog: 'Impact Matters' for this year's National Inclusion Week
The 2024 theme for National Inclusion Week is Impact Matters, which is why we strive to move beyond tick box diversity initiatives and have launched a programme of support to enable other organisations to do the same.
Roots to Work | Tuesday 24 September 2024
Blog: National School Meals Week: how can we ensure everybody benefits?
As schools and caterers across the country celebrate National School Meals Week, Children’s Food Campaign Officer Naema Jannath and Campaign Manager Barbara Crowther take stock of the progress and continuing challenges of delivering healthy School Food For All.
Children's Food Campaign | Wednesday 8 November 2023
Reports: Briefing: Sustain response to proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework
Proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) risk making it easier for large-scale intensive livestock units to expand in rural areas, despite the risk they pose to UK food security, water and air pollution, biodiversity loss and animal welfare. Sensible adjustments to the draft NPPF will unlock the potential of sustainable farming, building the essential resilience the UK needs in the face of global instability, creating more and better jobs and increasing the production of healthy food.
Sustain | Monday 16 February 2026
News: Sustain and Foodrise shortlisted for the SMK National Campaigner Awards 2026
The Sheila McKechnie Foundation has recognised the work by Sustain, Foodrise and local residents to successfully stop one of Europe’s largest proposed megafarms. The campaign established climate change as a valid reason for councils to refuse factory farm planning applications.
Sustain | Tuesday 19 May 2026
News: Legal challenge finds national climate plans unlawfully inadequate
The High Court has ruled that the UK government’s Carbon Budget Delivery Plan (CBDP) is inadequate to deliver necessery emissions reductions and must be revised within one year.
Food for the Planet | Wednesday 29 May 2024
Food for the Planet: Sustain The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity.
