Steve Baker – 2025 Volunteer Awards

Steve Baker, Senior Planning Volunteer at CPRE Hertfordshire, is being recognised with the CPRE Special Contribution Award for his outstanding contributions to the charity’s mission to protect the countryside.

As a volunteer for the past six years, Steve has been instrumental in all of our work on Local Plans across the county, as well as the Hertfordshire Minerals and Waste Local Plan. Steve’s professional planning experience and expertise has been invaluable, enabling CPRE Hertfordshire to make high quality representations at the various consultation stages of Local Plans, and at the subsequent Plan examinations. He has also provided technical input for our responses to national planning consultations and advises us on a wide range of planning matters including Green Belt and housing need policies.

Steve is a passionate advocate for the Hertfordshire countryside and for protecting it from the ever-increasing threat of damaging proposals for mass-housebuilding and large-scale ground-mounted solar installations.