Country Land and Business Association

The CLA has some 40,000 members that together manage approximately 5 million hectares of rural England and Wales. The Association was founded almost one hundred years ago to protect the interests of owners of rural land. Today, our membership encompasses the full diversity of land, property and business and it is this experience and expertise which enables us to fight hard for a thriving rural economy. Many of our members have been blighted by fly-tipping and continue to be so: remote rural land is often accessible for fly-tippers and difficult to patrol.