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If you need to find out more about our work or want to interview someone at CPRE, please contact the press office and we’ll put you in touch with one of our spokespeople.

We also have images and publications available to the media.

Contact our press office

If you are a journalist looking to find out more about our work or wanting to interview a CPRE expert, please contact the press office on:

07739 332 796, press@cpre.org.uk.

For any out-of-hours enquiries, please call the same number and you will be redirected to the relevant team member.

Recent press releases

16 October: 2023 Local Green Spaces report 

29 August: Net nutrient neutrality comment

17 Aug: Green Belt is the indispensable solution to climate, nature and food security challenges, says CPRE

8 June: CPRE wins at the Charity Awards

5 June: Comment on Defra rural action plan

30 May: Roger Mortlock comment on hope value

23 May: Rooftops can provide over half our solar energy targets, report shows

17 May: Comment on Keir Starmer article on Green Belt

27 February 2023: Light pollution means most of us can’t enjoy properly dark sky

2 February 2023: CPRE, the countryside charity appoints new CEO

2022

17 November 2022: ‘A poorly designed support package’ – our reaction to autumn statement

16 November 2022: Unleash rooftop solar to tackle energy crisis, CPRE urges Chancellor

20 July 2022: Huge quantities of productive land lost to development, our research shows

26 May 2022: Green Belt needs investment to level up access to nature

17 May 2022: Fears over energy costs reduce light pollution, Star Count results suggest

6 April 2022: We need a balanced mix in a renewables-led energy revolution, says CPRE

25 March 2022: Planning to fail: net zero is impossible without urgent changes to planning

26 February 2022: Public asked to be citizen scientists in Star Count to map light pollution

21 February 2022: New campaign calls for a ‘legal right to local nature’ in Levelling Up

2 February 2022: Ensure local green spaces are given the same protection as national parks

14 January 2022: Responding to the gas crisis with a green, fair and resilient response

13 January 2022: CPRE research: Explosion in holiday lets is strangling rural communities

11 January 2022: An abundance of nature should be baked into every local plan, says CPRE

2021

18 November 2021: CPRE report: Waste of green fields as undeveloped brownfield hits new high

13 October 2021: Lousy public transport, loneliness and lack of affordable housing are pushing young people out of the countryside, a CPRE survey has revealed

17 September 2021: Gove urged to listen to local communities not developers on the future of planning, says CPRE

15 September 2021: New cabinet must face triple threat of housing, nature and climate crises, says CPRE

6 September 2021: Boosting hedgerows by 40% would create 25,000 jobs, new CPRE research shows

6 July 2021: Planning Bill could ‘oust people and nature’, say campaigners

16 June 2021: We demand a fair deal on heating

22 April 2021: ‘Crown jewels’ of our countryside under threat like never before, CPRE analysis of AONBs reveals

6 April 2021: Dramatic reduction in light pollution during lockdown, Star Count reveals

22 March 2021: Five times more funding needed to ‘bus back better’ in rural England

17 March 2021: New data: Over 8 billion drinks bottles and cans wasted in the UK in 2019

25 February 2021: Pressure on Green Belt quadruples since 2013, says CPRE

22 February 2021: Government must to more to tackle rural disadvantage, campaigners urge

18 February 2021: Government should rethink approach to Oxford-Cambridge Arc, says CPRE

14 January 2021: Coalition of 18 organisations tells government to rethink planning changes

2020

17 December 2020: Three in four people report rise in PPE litter since coronavirus, says CPRE

10 December 2020: English councillors in revolt over plans to dismantle planning system

22 November 2020: Our poll shows over half of MPs oppose the government’s planning changes

28 October 2020: Rural homelessness doubles since 2018, says CPRE

21 October 2020: Enough brownfield land for 1.3 million new homes, CPRE report reveals

1 October 2020: Housing algorithm will threaten valued countryside, says CPRE analysis

1 October 2020: Single-use society must end, says CPRE

1 October 2020: CPRE calls for the burning of peatland to stop

7 August 2020: Net-zero virtually impossible without more ambition on peatlands

5 August 2020: Government planning reforms don’t pass the acid test for community voice

8 July 2020: Greener, better, faster: how the countryside can tackle climate change

6 July 2020: Homes for heroes: huge lack of affordable homes for rural key workers

1 July 2020: A ‘once in a generation chance’ to unleash the potential of the countryside

25 June 2020: Simon Murray elected as new Chair of CPRE

16 June 2020: Major rethink of garden cities and towns needed, according to CPRE

4 June 2020: Over two-thirds want to see local green spaces enhanced, we find