Latest news releases
national planning policy guidance to ensure communities have access to healthy food.
The latest Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs survey on the Campaign for the Farmed Environment shows it continues to fall short of expectations.
We welcome the inclusion in today's legislative programme of the Groceries Code Adjudicator Bill.
Feeding the Future in Norwich
03 May 2012
For the first time CPRE and Sustain are bringing people across Norfolk together to talk about how to support their local food networks.
Countryside caught in a hurricane of new wind turbines
30 April 2012
Exponential growth in wind turbine planning applications leaving local communities struggling to safeguard valued landscapes.
rural campaigners and astronomers have found no real improvement in the amount of wasted light being pumped into Britain’s skies. .
CPRE believes Ministers have made significant progress towards meeting the concerns raised by rural campaigners about the draft planning framework published last year, making some vital improvements that should achieve better planning outcomes.
CPRE’s reaction to the new planning reforms (NPPF)
27 March 2012
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has welcomed the statement to Parliament by Planning Minister Greg Clark, but will now be examining the detail prior to commenting at greater length later today.
Six key questions hanging over the final NPPF
26 March 2012
The key document central to the Governments planning reforms, the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), will be published on Tuesday 27 March. CPRE sets out some critical questions we will be looking to the Government to address.

