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We are the countryside

It’s Free Wills Month

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.

Explore things to do

brownfield site in the Wirral for 127 homes

Our response to the new Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Our response to the new Planning and Infrastructure Bill published today.

Countryside for all

Person walking in the countryside, some sheep on the field.

CPRE makes progress on EDI, according to RACE report

CPRE have implemented almost twice as many of the Report’s recommendations

What gets built and where

A Barratt housing development in Consett

New NPPF: Broken housebuilding market to blame for lack of homes, we say

A revised National Planning Policy Framework has been published.

Family on a countryside walk leaning against a wooden gate looking out over the Green Belt

Five young people cross stepping stones across a stream

Latest news

What gets built and where

Our response to Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement

Cleaner countryside

North and East Yorkshire

City of York Local Plan 2017-2033 – Adoption Statement

Hedgerows

Bedfordshire

Hedgerow Heroes 2024/25 season round up

Farming and soil

Norfolk

Contribute to a research study on farming, conservation and recreation

Brownfield first

CPRE Hertfordshire

4,213 Long Term Empty Homes Could Help Meet Local Housing Need

Local transport

Cheshire

CPRE Cheshire responds to Cheshire East Council Transport consultation

Hedgerows

Warwickshire

Hedgerow Hero Phase 4 Complete

Cleaner countryside

North and East Yorkshire

North Sea oil tanker collision – a huge threat to communities, business and wildlife

Latest features

All you need to know about the Sunshine Bill

You can email your MP to back the bill for rooftop solar.

Housing in the countryside with rooftop solar

Why building the homes we need means re-thinking how we use land

CPRE’s CEO Roger Mortlock on the government’s changes to planning policy.

Patchwork quilt inspired by nature and green belt

Aiming at the wrong target

CPRE CEO Roger Mortlock on the proposed Standard Method for housing.

A housing development in rural Worcestershire