A responsible community should be concerned that food security and the cost of buying food, most affects those excluded from growing food due to personal circumstance, supply and demand affects price.

Purchase of Isle of Wight farmland by the Wildlife Trusts under their scheme which includes the introduction of beavers, obtains funding from new housing schemes under the government's trading platform.

New housing produces many infrastructure demands, including production of sewage, education and healthcare services, food and water.

New housing does not produce the historic nitrates associated with old agriculture. New housing does produce human sewage, which is now overflowing into the island's marine environment and requires human not beaver intervention.

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The incorrect balance resulting from the government's trading platform set up in recent years, allows monies to go to the hibernation of farmland/potential farmland through that trading platform.

The hundreds or is it thousands of Island acres lost to agriculture through this trading platform, significantly reduces this Island's potential in the supply of food.

Less farmland results in more pressure on the remaining agricultural resource, resulting in more intensive agriculture, and a threat to future food production as soils become unproductive.

New housing should provide mitigation monies to cover relevant infrastructure, it appears that the planning process has become monopolised by central government dictates on nitrates and phosphates at the risk of relevant infrastructure.

Finally, water management can be dealt with ranging from large scale investment to council-funded household water butts, which would also reduce sewage discharges into the sea, all of which should obtain mitigation monies from new housing.

Flooding in suburban areas is not going to be stopped by beavers.

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