Planning woes hold back wine sector

Rigid and inconsistent planning policies make it difficult for vineyards to expand into wine tourism

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Planning woes hold back wine sector

A new report by national planning and development consultancy Lichfields, released for English Wine Week, revealed that growth is being constrained by a rigid framework that fails to account for site-specific...

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