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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

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.

What gets built and where

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Planning Bill update: where are we now, and what are we calling for?

There’s still time to influence the pivotal Bill.

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Latest news

Renewable energy

Two-thirds of mega solar farms built on productive farmland

Renewable energy

Somerset

Willow Solar Plant – why we are objecting

Climate emergency

London

London wildfires risk ignites urban sprawl debate

Renewable energy

CPRE responds to Solar Roadmap 

Landscapes

Hampshire

The Universal Declaration of the Rights of Rivers

Local transport

Wiltshire

Transport, Planning and our Communities

People

Wiltshire

An opportunity to volunteer with us!

Hedgerows

Hampshire

CPRE Hampshire Launches Paid Hedge Laying Traineeships to Inspire the Next Generation of Countryside Stewards

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)

Brownfield site near railway line