More than sixty years after laws were passed to protect our landscapes the UK Government and devolved administrations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland need to extend the same protection to our...
In its latest report, The Common Agricultural Policy after 2013, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee has highlighted the need for proposals to reform the Common Agricultur...
As well as being countryside champions and campaigners, CPRE has a long history of promoting and facilitating public engagement with the planning system. To further this aim CPRE, with partners the N...
CPRE have published six location reports showing the scale and impact of local food webs in towns and cities across England. These reports are the first part of extensive research into how local...
A powerful alliance of respected organisations has agreed a Charter that will hold the Government to account on its approach to High Speed Rail.
The Campaign to Protect Rural England today labels the Budget, ‘a massive threat to the environment’. The triple whammy of scrapping national brownfield targets, introducing a default yes...
Amid suggestions that liberalising the planning system could be at the centre of the Budget next week, planning expert CPRE has set out to dispel some dangerous misconceptions about the planning syst...
CPRE welcomes the establishment of an independent panel of experts that will make recommendations on forestry policy for England.
New research commissioned by CPRE shows that a drinks container deposit refund scheme (DRS) has the potential to raise upwards of £432 million each year for local charities and Big Society initi...
CPRE has welcomed a package of measures published by the Government to improve the environmental and economic prospects for Englands upland areas.
CPRE have labelled the consultation process for High Speed 2 as a complete train wreck. The charity describes the consultation as a head-on collision between Government plans to develop nationa...
Countryside champions, Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), are today celebrating the Government’s decision to scrap the consultation on forest and woodland sell-offs in England. However, ...
Countryside Champions, the Campaign to Protect Rural England, have slammed Government plans to link financial incentives to decisions on housing development. The charity claims the Government’s...
It appears the battle to save England woodlands has met with some success yesterday. During an exchange at Prime Ministers Question Time (PMQs) David Cameron indicated he was not happy with the propo...
Final details of the Government’s flagship housing scheme, the ‘New Homes Bonus’ are anticipated later this week. But a legal opinion obtained by CPRE on the proposed scheme c...
Countryside campaigners are celebrating today following success in their fight to stop Nocton Dairies building Britain’s first ever mega dairy. In a short statement Nocton Dairies claimed they ...
Frustrated with the filthy state of many of England’s rail stations, railways and sidings, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and campaigners across the country, including CPRE Presid...
The Government has published a detailed consultation on the sale of Forestry Commission land in England. There has been widespread concern about what Ministers might propose, with hundreds of thousan...
CPRE, with partners ACRE, the CRC and the NALC, have published a new guide to renewable energy sources that will help rural communities keep their bills under control while playing their part in cutt...
The influential House of Commons Energy and Climate Change Committee has released a report highlighting major flaws in proposed planning rules. Key among these is the proposal to dramatically we...
The Campaign to Protect Rural England and the British Astronomical Association’s Campaign for Dark Skies are calling for ‘citizen scientists’ to take part in Star Count Week.
A new £560 million fund for greener local transport is a welcome boost for greener transport options in the countryside says the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
As the Localism Bill is subject to its first debate in Parliament, CPRE questions whether the Bill will do enough to empower local communities.
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