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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

What gets built and where

Countryside wins new safeguards in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill

CPRE helps win new protections for nature and the countryside.

Celebrating 100 years: bringing the countryside to RHS Chelsea Flower Show

Celebrating 100 years with a show garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show

New build housing development, norfolk, england

Government announces wave of last-minute reforms to planning bill

The announcement came late on Monday night.

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Latest news

What gets built and where

Government strips protections from the Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Hedgerows

Derbyshire

Want to be a Hedgerow Hero

What gets built and where

Gloucestershire

Sharing our successful grant award: Gloucestershire’s Brownfield Survey

Hedgerows

Cheshire

Hedgerow Heroes winter 25-26: dates for volunteer hedge planting sessions

What gets built and where

Countryside wins new safeguards in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Renewable energy

Kent

Celebrate! Inspector dismisses developer’s solar-farm appeal

Renewable energy

Peak District and South Yorkshire

Our Response to the Whitestones Solar Farm Proposal

What gets built and where

Bedfordshire

Storm water overflows of sewage stop new housing developments

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