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Viable villages: closing the planning loophole
For decades, England hasn’t built enough genuinely affordable homes in rural or urban areas.
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Our changing climate, our changing lives
The South East
Climate change in the South East could alter everything from golfing to gardening, from house prices to hedgehogs, from farming to fishing. We have the choice to limit the impacts on our homes, our health and our heritage – and increasingly...
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The Right Lines Charter
A Charter for doing High Speed Rail well
Our Charter sets out four principles for doing High Speed Rail well, urging the Government to rethink it's approach to HS2.
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Fieldwork: Spring 2011
In this issue: Star count results Collaboration on new coastal policy Good ideas for ‘greener’ village Gen up on renewable energy Food – from field to fork Refuse to accept refuse
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Making Our Mark
80 years of campaigning for the countryside
Leading historian and journalist Tristram Hunt writes about CPRE's life and times since our foundation in 1926. This lavishly illustrated 20 page booklet covers all of CPRE's major achievements in its first 80 years.
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20:26 Vision - What future for the countryside?
This booklet looks to the future and sets out some of the challenges facing our countryside. At the same time, it is inspired by the consensus in support of National Parks, Green Belts and the land use planning system that CPRE has helped to forge over...
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Introducing the Campaign to Protect Rural England
This booklet shows how CPRE is making a positive difference to the countryside in a series of real life case studies. We work on behalf of everyone who loves the beautiful English countryside and we hope this booklet inspires you to take action and...
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David Cameron's Vision for the Countryside: Social Value and Local Communities - a speech to CPRE
This booklet contains the speech given by the Rt Hon David Cameron MP to CPRE’s 2008 Annual Lecture and explores the relationship between social value – the theme of his speech – and CPRE’s traditional focus on landscape.
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2026 - A Vision for the Countryside
This new charter for the countryside describes the England CPRE wants to see in 2026, our centenary year. The Vision, produced after wide consultation, pictures a countryside in 2026 that is used and valued by all as a national asset, helping create a...
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2026 - Living the vision: case studies
13 case studies show how CPRE's aims for the countryside of 2026 could be achieved if we adopt these pioneering schemes as 'the norm', and take inspiration from individuals making a stand now.
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2026 - A Vision for the Countryside: Towards our Vision
CPRE Chief Executive, Shaun Spiers, explains how the organisation's traditional values and historic achievements have shaped our 2026 Vision. This essay argues that promoting a positive future for rural England will help change public attitudes and...
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The Use of Airspace
CPRE evidence to the Transport Select Committee
The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) believes that the present laissez-faire approach to the use of airspace is unsustainable. Action is required urgently to deal with the flaws in the present arrangements, which have developed in an...
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The Future of Aviation
Memorandum of Evidence by the Campaign to Protect Rural England to the Transport Select Committee Inquiry
CPRE's evidence argues that aviation can be detrimental to England's tourism industry, causing a net job loss and particularly affecting the economy of rural areas. The submission calls for an independent review of Air Travel White Paper to achieve...
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Regulating Air Transport: Consultation on Proposals to Update the Regulatory Framework
A Response by CPRE to the Department for Transport?s Consultation
The Campaign to Protect Rural England welcomes reform to the Civil Aviation Authority’s objectives to ensure it safeguards the public interest in the use of airspace. The CAA’s purpose should be to safeguard public interest as to how airspace is used...
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Fieldwork: Volume 4, Issue 3
Articles in this issue of Fieldwork: taking action on speeding, bioenergy: the facts, how to fight post office closures, campaigning in the city and tackling litter in the countryside.
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Fieldwork: Volume 4, Issue 4
Articles in this issue of Fieldwork , CPRE's quarterly campaigning newsletter: dormice as trapeze artists, why beef and sheep farming matters, mapping out campaigns, setting up shop, counting the cost of planning reforms. CPRE members can choose to...
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Fieldwork: Volume 5, Issue 1
Articles in this issue of Fieldwork , CPRE's quarterly campaigning newsletter: how to organise a protest march, dishing the dirt on litter, a roof for homeless birds, rocking the boat on mooring developments, taking community action on renewable...
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Fieldwork: Volume 5, Issue 2
Articles in this issue of Fieldwork: sleuthing around hedgerows, power to the people, bringing sheep into the classroom, looking at the case for rail, a campaign the Wombles would like.
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Fieldwork: Volume 5, Issue 3
Articles in this issue of Fieldwork: keeping cool at public inquiries, taking on the supermarket giants, looking at the future of rural car clubs, shady dealings on golf courses, will renewable energy transform the countryside? CPRE members can choose...
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Fieldwork: Volume 5, Issue 4
Articles in this issue of Fieldwork: making a noise about Quiet Lanes, how fish and chips are reducing litter, power to the people: using new legislation, championing the uplands, creative tactics promote local food.
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Fieldwork: Volume 6, Issue 1
Articles in this issue of Fieldwork: Green Belts in the limelight, a celebration of our protected landscapes, lifting the lid on regional planning reforms, demystifying national policy statements, how to fight your corner at a planning inquiry.
