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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

The countryside next door

Christmas dinner at risk under ‘grey belt’ proposals, CPRE analysis reveals

The ‘grey belt’ policy will undermine protections for the Green Belt.

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.

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Our Volunteer Movement 2024

As 2024 comes to a close, we’re celebrating our volunteer movement at CPRE.

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Five young people cross stepping stones across a stream

Latest news

About CPRE

Local CPRE network successes in 2024

Climate emergency

London

Last call to stop airport expansion

Landscapes

Somerset

Restoring Somerset’s historic signposts

Dark skies

Somerset

Come stargazing!

What gets built and where

Bedfordshire

CPRE Bedfordshire full EWR consultation response

Renewable energy

Sunshine Bill debate calling for solar PV on new homes adjourned

Hedgerows

Hampshire

Celebrating the Midway Milestone of the Hampshire Hedge

What gets built and where

Worcestershire

Countryside under threat from new housing figures

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