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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.

Explore things to do

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CPRE at the party conferences: how we’re giving the countryside a voice

We’ve sponsored events at three major party conferences.

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Slow progress on land strategy risks loss of countryside and food security

Our report recommends the urgent publication of the Land Use Framework

Hedgerow Heroes Phase Five: 13 local CPREs join the mission

Phase Five of our Hedgerow Heroes project is now underway

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Latest news

Campaigning

CPRE at the party conferences: how we’re giving the countryside a voice

Dark skies

Norfolk

CPRE Norfolk to help launch the Dark Skies Festival

What gets built and where

Cheshire

CPRE Cheshire response to Cheshire West & Chester Local Plan paper 2025

Landscapes

Somerset

This year’s Landscape Award in the Bruton Art Society Exhibition

What gets built and where

Norfolk

Have your say on the Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Hedgerows

Kent

Hedgerow Heroes: here’s the chance to do something really special

Landscapes

Somerset

Restoring Somerset’s historic signposts

Landscapes

Slow progress on land strategy risks loss of countryside and food security

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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