This guide is a celebration of hedgerows. We wanted to share our passion for them and encourage more people to care about them too. And to entice you further, we’ve included a handy hedgerow plant identifier for when you’re next exploring our beautiful countryside.

If you would like a printed copy please contact CPRE Publications, tel: 020 7981 2870 or email: publications@cpre.org.uk.

Community Landscape Character Statements can help to put landscape character at the heart of the local planning system. We have prepared this Step-By-Step Guide to get you started and show the process and benefits of preparing a Statement. Order the full 'Unlocking the Landscape' action pack for more detailed guidance on community involvement and compatibility with the planning process.

CPRE hopes that Defra's Natural Environment White Paper will set out an ambitious landscape-scale approach to conservation, putting existing protected areas and wildlife sites at its heart. This response explains CPRE's belief that the process must be closely integrated with planning reform, while recognising that the intrinsic value of the natural environment is every bit as important as the ‘ecosystem services’ it offers.

This guide outlines a range of way in which local volunteers and groups can work with others to identify, promote and create local landscape diversity and distinctiveness.

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the British Astronomical Association’s Campaign for Dark Skies (CfDS) came together in late 2009 to run a survey about how light pollution is affecting people’s lives. Data from our survey.

We have developed a method of mapping areas of intrusion in England. These are areas disturbed by the presence of noise and visual intrusion from major infrastructure such as motorways and A roads, urban areas and airports. The resulting maps show the extent of intrusion in the early 1960s, early 1990s and 2007. This technical report explains how we created our intrusion maps. It gives the distance thresholds which define areas of intrusion and lists the national datasets used. It also includes full statistical tables of areas disturbed and as yet undisturbed by noise and visual intrusion for each time period for England, its regions, counties and unitary authorities.

Calculations of County and Unitary Authority areas disturbed by noise and visual intrusion.

Calculations of County and Unitary Authority areas disturbed by noise and visual intrusion.

Calculations of County and Unitary Authority areas disturbed by noise and visual intrusion.

Calculations of County and Unitary Authority areas disturbed by noise and visual intrusion.