It is a month now since the troubled water provider, United Utilities, announced – to much initial cheer on social media – that it would not be renewing any licences for grouse shooting to tenants on its land. The company, which was reported almost 70,000 times for sewage leaks in 2022, said that the move marked a significant change in its approach to land management. Shooting Times spoke to a number of gamekeepers and shoot managers on the ground just as the news was breaking, who said that they had received a letter from the company’s agent but that the whole thing seemed to have been rushed through. It now appears that United Utilities is of the same retrospective opinion. The team at BASC announced last week that in response to them raising fierce concerns on behalf of their members, Louise Beardmore (the reportedly vegetarian CEO of United Utilities) had agreed that they would actually engage with the 23 shoots affected by the decision in order to try to work out the full im
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