In this climate there is the opportunity for well co-ordinated local groups to make their voices heard in how this resource is spent. Advice on local business development exists but many local people do not know the right questions to ask to access it. Local agriculture, of major importance to the economy and landscape, has also been hard hit by the recent slump. The high quality of the land gives farming the potential to recover, but current circumstances may lead to even more intensification and drainage, which will affect landscape quality. Local produce is not co-operatively marketed locally and the farming community needs to become more fully a part of the whole community, and agree some common aims.
Local farmers lack basic information on green tourism related diversification.
Concern over peat extraction, now being addressed by landscape regeneration projects, remains an emotive local issue, as does access to the wider countryside. There is also concern over drainage and associated de-watering. The area is rich in historic and natural landscape assets. While there are valuable local heritage initiatives and a sense of local pride, this heritage is presently imperfectly understood and underdeveloped. The local community has not yet come to an agreed way forward.