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We are the countryside

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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

CPRE and NALC launch new guide to planning for the public

The guide breaks down how our planning system works.

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Our response to the new Planning and Infrastructure Bill

Our response to the new Planning and Infrastructure Bill published today.

Countryside for all

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CPRE makes progress on EDI, according to RACE report

CPRE have implemented almost twice as many of the Report’s recommendations

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Latest news

Homes people can afford

Rural housing crisis demands action in Planning and Infrastructure Bill

What gets built and where

Somerset

We won! Inspector says no to large bungalow on Exmoor coastal path

Landscapes

Somerset

Should the Somerset Levels be the UK’s next National Landscape?

Influencing policy

London

As the London Plan consultation is published, we write A Letter to London

Renewable energy

Peak District and South Yorkshire

Plans for solar panels on all new homes

Renewable energy

Plans for solar panels on all new homes a big campaign win

Climate emergency

CCC report ‘a clarion call to think differently about land’, we say

What gets built and where

CPRE responds to Land Use Framework consultation

Latest features

CPRE and NALC launch new guide to planning for the public

The guide breaks down how our planning system works.

Ten things we want to see from the Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB)

Brownfield site near railway line

All you need to know about the Sunshine Bill

You can email your MP to back the bill for rooftop solar.

Housing in the countryside with rooftop solar