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Keep local voices in planning decisions

Tell your MP

We are the countryside

We’re passionate about making the countryside a better place for everyone to live, work and enjoy.

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What we care about

We want to connect people to the countryside. wherever they live.

Our areas of work

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Get involved

Love the countryside? Want to help us make it even better? Find out how.

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Discover our countryside

Want to know about things to see and do in the countryside near you? We can help.

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Renewable energy

Two-thirds of mega solar farms built on productive farmland

England’s most productive farmland is being lost to mega solar farms

Renewable energy

CPRE responds to Solar Roadmap 

Push for rooftop solar grows, but big solar still threatens countryside

Rural communities

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CPRE responds to spending review statement

Rural communities need affordable homes and fair funding for buses.

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Latest news

Local transport

CPRE responds to the Transport Committee’s rural buses report

What gets built and where

Derbyshire

Matlock Wolds Appeal Dismissed

The countryside next door

Staffordshire

Be Wildfire Aware This Summer

Renewable energy

Somerset

Nythe Road solar farm threat returns

About CPRE

CPRE is celebrating second annual Countryside Day – 2025

Cleaner countryside

Gloucestershire

Rethinking road repairs

What gets built and where

Bedfordshire

Save our Green Belt – sign the petition

Local transport

Cheshire

CPRE Cheshire response to Cheshire West & Chester transport consultation

Latest features

CPRE and NALC launch new guide to planning for the public

The guide breaks down how our planning system works.

We respond to House of Commons debate on mega solar farms

The UK is still way behind on unlocking rooftop solar.

Ten things we want to see from the Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB)

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