The 20 latest news articles

08/30/2010 02:00 AM
England’s hedgerows: don’t cut them out!
New research released by CPRE finds that more hedgerows then ever before are now being protected (42 per cent) with an 18 per cent increase since CPRE’s last survey in 1998 [1]. However the overall length of England’s managed hedgerows fell by 26,000 km (6 per cent) between 1998 and 2007 [2].

08/26/2010 02:00 AM
CPRE welcomes Pickles call to de-clutter the Countryside
CPRE is celebrating moves by the Government to take action on signage clutter. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Transport Secretary Philip Hammond are writing to councils to ask them to 'cut the clutter', echoing calls first made by CPRE in 1996 in its groundbreaking report ‘The Cluttered Countryside.’  

08/19/2010 02:00 AM
The Big Society should mean stronger rights to challenge bad planning decisions, say CPRE and ELF
As the Government begins to explain what the ‘Big Society’ might mean for local communities, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) are calling on Ministers not to pull a U-turn on their promise to rebalance rights of appeal in the planning process.

08/16/2010 02:20 PM
"Do or die" challenge for rural communities

Britain’s rural villages are at risk of dying unless radical action is taken to secure their future, it is being warned.

A newly formed Rural Coalition, made up of leading organisations which represent rural interests, is calling on the Government to deliver on its Big Society vision by radically empowering local people to shape the rural places in which they live.

08/03/2010 05:39 PM
Supermarket watchdog warmly welcomed
Graeme Willis, Senior Rural Policy Campaigner for CPRE, welcomes Government plans for a new Groceries Code Adjudicator to monitor and enforce the Groceries Supply Code of Practice between supermarkets and their suppliers.

07/23/2010 02:00 AM
Community Right to Build needs further thought, say CPRE

Fiona Howie, Head of Planning at the Campaign to Protect Rural England, responds to Grant Shapps plans for a new ‘Community Right to Build’.

07/21/2010 06:29 PM
No high-speed rail link to Heathrow is needed
CPRE Senior Transport Campaigner at Campaign Ralph Smyth comments on the independent report by Lord Mawhinney on High speed rail access to Heathrow

07/19/2010 02:00 AM
Cost of litter spirals out of control

The cost of clearing up Britain’s litter epidemic has risen by almost £100 million (10 percent) in just one year. Figures highlighted by Keep Britain Tidy show the full shocking £858 million cost of our throwaway culture.

07/15/2010 04:16 PM
CPRE wins battle to have energy policy re-evaluated
CPRE welcomes the announcement that the coalition Government has heeded its call to take another look at the draft Energy National Policy Statements (NPSs).

07/14/2010 01:34 PM
Don’t cut the countryside!
England’s conservation organisations have joined forces to paint a grim picture of a countryside starved of money by budget cuts. On the 30th anniversary of the Wildlife and Countryside Link, its members have issued an unprecedented warning about what the future would hold should the Government slash spending on conservation, wildlife-friendly farming and public recreation.

07/13/2010 02:00 AM
Affordable Housing Needed To Keep Villages Alive

Without new affordable housing many villages and rural areas will become enclaves of the wealthy, with local shops and services a distant memory. This is why the National Housing Federation (NHF), with support from a number of partners including Campaign to Protect Rural England, have launched a new a guide, ‘Affordable housing keeps villages alive,’ which aims to make the case for new rural affordable housing.

07/06/2010 11:30 AM
A welcome goodbye to top down housing, but don’t leave a strategic planning gap
CPRE Head of Planning, Fiona Howie, responds to confirmation that Regional Spatial Strategies will be abolished

07/06/2010 02:00 AM
State of the Countryside Report 2010: a challenge for the coalition
Ben Stafford, Head of Campaigns at CPRE, responds to the publication of the 2010 State of the Countryside report by the Commission for Rural Communities.

06/29/2010 04:43 PM
CPRE responds to scrapping of Commission for Rural Communities (CRC)
CPRE Chief Executive Shaun Spiers responds to Caroline Spelman's announcement that the Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) will be abolished.

06/29/2010 12:48 PM
End to IPC is a step towards more democratic planning, but still further to go say CPRE
Fiona Howie, CPRE Head of Planning comments the Government's announcement confirming the Infrastructure Planning Commission will be abolished.

06/25/2010 02:00 AM
Is Boris back-pedalling on London’s cycling revolution?
A new report by CPRE shows that the central target in London’s ‘cycling revolution’ is fundamentally flawed and accuses the London Mayor of Back-peddling London's cycling revolution.

06/22/2010 04:40 PM
Budget 2010: 'Greenest government ever' must not forget the environment

CPRE's Head of Campaigns, Ben Stafford, responds to the new coalition's emergency budget.

06/16/2010 02:00 PM
We need to cut carbon but not at the cost of the countryside, says rural campaigners
CPRE has called for close attention to be paid to an ambitious report that proposes to make Britain carbon neutral by 2030, and particularly its implications for the countryside.

06/15/2010 02:01 AM
New report puts upland landscapes centre stage for UK carbon and water strategy
CPRE welcomes the emphasis on carbon storage and water management in a new Uplands report  by the Commission for Rural Communities.

06/09/2010 01:41 PM
Government could be risking environmental disaster
CPRE respondes to a written Ministerial statement by the Minister for Decentralisation, Greg Clark MP, on the Government decision to remove gardens from the definition of brownfield land and to scrap minimum housing density standards.