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- ‘A poorly designed support package’ – our reaction to autumn statement
- ‘Crown jewels’ of countryside under threat, CPRE analysis of AONBs reveals
- ‘Greener, better, faster’- how the countryside can tackle climate change
- 2023 Local Green Spaces Report
- A ‘once in a generation chance’ to unleash potential of the countryside
- A missed opportunity to ‘deliver the greenest Budget ever’
- An abundance of nature should be baked into every local plan, says CPRE
- Boosting hedgerows by 40% would create 25,000 jobs, new CPRE research shows
- Chancellor must do more to tackle rural disadvantage, campaigners urge
- Coalition of 18 organisations tells government to rethink planning changes
- Comment on Defra rural action plan
- Comment on Keir Starmer article on Green Belt
- Countryside school visits and nature studies could secure parent vote, says CPRE
- Countryside-loving millennials will vote to save green spaces, new research shows
- CPRE calls for burning of peatland to stop
- CPRE report: Waste of green fields as undeveloped brownfield hits new high
- CPRE research: Explosion in holiday lets is strangling rural communities
- CPRE responds to the agriculture bill
- CPRE responds to the Conservative Party manifesto
- CPRE responds to the Labour party manifesto
- CPRE responds to the Liberal Democrat election manifesto
- CPRE response to Queen’s Speech
- CPRE survey reveals the factors pushing young people out of the countryside
- CPRE wins at Charity Awards
- CPRE, the countryside charity appoints new CEO
- CPRE, the countryside charity, welcomes the new Labour leader
- Cross-party report hails health and wellbeing benefits of London Green Belt
- Dramatic reduction in light pollution during lockdown, Star Count reveals
- English councillors in revolt over plans to dismantle planning system
- Enough brownfield land for 1.3 million new homes, CPRE report reveals
- Ensure local green spaces are given the same protection as national parks
- Fears over energy costs reduce light pollution, Star Count results suggest
- Five times more funding needed to ‘bus back better’ in rural England
- Future generations at risk of losing benefit of our county farms
- Gove urged: listen to local communities, not developers, on planning
- Government ‘out of touch’ with own MPs on new planning system and must rethink
- Government planning reforms don’t pass acid test for community voice
- Government should rethink approach to Oxford-Cambridge Arc, says CPRE
- Government’s drive to improve design of homes welcomed by CPRE
- Green Belt is crucial to solving climate, nature and food crises, we say
- Green Belt needs investment to level up access to nature
- Homes for heroes: huge lack of affordable homes for rural key workers
- Housing algorithm will threaten valued countryside and do little to tackle the affordable housing crisis, CPRE analysis finds
- Huge quantities of productive land lost to development, our research shows
- Major rethink of garden cities and towns needed, according to CPRE
- Nearly a million stranded in ‘transport deserts’ as rural travel links cut
- Net nutrient neutrality comment
- Net-zero virtually impossible without more ambition on peatlands
- New cabinet must face triple threat of housing, nature & climate crises
- New campaign calls for a ‘legal right to local nature’ in Levelling Up
- New data: Over 8 billion drinks bottles and cans wasted in the UK in 2019
- New housing design is overwhelmingly ‘mediocre’ or ‘poor’
- NEW POLL: Local democracy threatened by key measure in Levelling Up Bill
- Nick Raynsford calls for a radical rethink of planning reform
- Over two thirds want to see their local green space enhanced
- Planning Bill could ‘oust people and nature’, say campaigners
- Planning to fail: net zero is impossible without urgent changes to planning
- Pressure on Green Belt quadruples since 2013, says CPRE
- Public asked to be citizen scientists in Star Count to map light pollution
- Record breaking number of brownfield sites identified for redevelopment
- Remember the countryside at COP 26, says CPRE
- Roger Mortlock comment on hope halue
- Rooftops can provide over half our solar energy targets, report shows
- Rooftops can provide over half our solar energy targets, report shows Copy
- Rural homelessness doubles since 2018, rural campaigners say
- Rural social housing waiting lists grow
- Simon Murray elected as new Chair of CPRE
- Single use society must end, says CPRE, the countryside charity
- Star Count 2020 shows 61% live in areas with severe light pollution
- Star Count 2020: connecting more people with starry skies
- Surge in appreciation for green spaces and community spirit amid lockdown
- The new government must invest in rural communities, says CPRE
- Three in four people report rise in PPE litter since coronavirus
- Unleash rooftop solar to tackle energy crisis, CPRE urges Chancellor
- We find only a third of councils have an up-to-date local plan
- We need a balanced mix in a renewables-led energy revolution, says CPRE
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- Video transcript: A countryside for us all. Forever.
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News Posts
- Our report: Housing crisis poses threat to survival of rural communities
- Our reaction to the 2023 autumn statement
- Star Count is paused for 2024
- Our response to the King’s Speech
- Oil drilling approval in Lincolnshire ‘completely unacceptable’, we say
- We respond to Suella Braverman’s remarks on homelessness
- News from the NDMP vote: public consultation, but no parliamentary scrutiny
- Local democracy at risk as government dodges scrutiny in Levelling Up Bill
- More Local Green Spaces, but deprived areas still lacking, our report shows
- Starmer’s approach must focus on brownfield first, we say
- We welcome Labour’s net zero plans, but local democracy must be protected
- CPRE manifesto for the next UK government launched
- The Hedgelife Help Out results are in!
- Win for local communities as NDMP scrutiny amendment is passed in the Lords
- Weakening nutrient neutrality rules ‘damaging and regressive’, we say
- Green Belt is crucial to solving climate, nature and food crises, we say
- Rethink Cambridge: our reaction to the government’s housing plan
- Our year celebrated: the annual review of CPRE
- CPRE’s hedgerow campaign wins top prize at 2023 Charity Awards
- Big developers exploiting loophole to build on greenfield land
- Rooftops can provide over half our solar energy targets, report shows
- Take part in Hedgelife Help Out
- Local democracy threatened by levelling up bill’s key measures, warns CPRE
- Only one in 20 of us can enjoy a starry sky, Star Count results find
- CPRE calls for urgent changes to levelling-up bill
- CPRE is Big Help Out partner
- Groundbreaking report shows chronic increase in rural homelessness
- Our reaction to the 2023 spring budget
- Home Builders Federation’s housing slump claim is ‘fear mongering’, we say
- We’re looking for three new national trustees
- Let’s rewild the night sky by tackling light pollution
- Oil drilling in Sussex ‘makes a mockery of the climate crisis’, we say
- Time to go all-in for a deposit return scheme, says CPRE
- Huge campaign win as government sets hedgerow targets
- CPRE joins coalition on food, farming and nature
- Star Count 2023 to take place between 17-24 February
- 2022: our impact
- Brownfield land for 1.2 million homes lying dormant, our report shows
- Approval of new Cumbria coal mine ‘shameful’, we say
- Major campaign success as planning changes give more power to communities
- Farmers want funding for more nature-boosting hedgerows, our survey shows
- Learn about hedgelaying with Derrick Hale
- Pylons down as landscapes restored
- Unleash rooftop solar to tackle energy crisis, we urge Chancellor
- Our letter to the Secretary of State: refuse the Cumbria coal mine
- ‘Beggars belief’ – we comment on third Cumbria coal mine delay
- Fracking ban reinstated by Rishi Sunak
- To Rishi Sunak: we need positive progress at a time of multiple crises
- CPRE’s hedgerow petition handed in to Defra
- Leaked email exposes gov’t attempts to bypass public scrutiny on fracking
- The government must rethink its plans on fracking – our petition
- ‘Deregulation on steroids’ – our response to planned investment zones
- Our Queen, our patron: the end of an era
- Lifting the ban on fracking ‘a hideous mistake’, we say
- We call for land strategy and new planning rules to guard food security
- Investment needed for countryside next door to level up access to nature
- Night skies outlook is bright, our Star Count results suggest
- Planning to fail: CPRE finds government failing to map route to net zero
- A quarter of a million of you sign a petition against new coal mining
- Local Green Spaces: new research proves their value to people and nature
- Our iconic landscapes: will they get the money they need?
- New research: a huge rise in holiday lets is strangling rural communities
- It’s official: the government is U-turning on planning system changes
- 2021: CPRE’s impact
- An unseen crisis: rural homelessness and what CPRE is doing about it
- New research shows space for 1.3m homes on recycled land is being ignored
- A budget for cities that neglects rural communities: our comment
- Turn new brownfield funding into affordable, quality rural homes, we say
- CPRE responds to the new ‘tentative’ government net-zero carbon strategy
- ‘Don’t forget us!’ say young people in our new CPRE report
- Encouraging words from the Prime Minister on planning and brownfield
- Major success for local voice campaigners as planning changes are paused
- CPRE urges Michael Gove to focus on housing, nature and the climate crisis
- Government likely to abandon parts of planning proposals in a major win
- CPRE releases groundbreaking new research into hedgerows
- Our open letter: hedgerows, the climate and nature heroes
- The six key tests that campaigners are using to assess new planning bill
- The Glover Review announcement is a good start: now the work begins, we say
- We review climate report and say ‘close chasm between words and actions’
- Happy birthday Boris: we mark the day with a huge DRS petition
- Key committee agrees with CPRE: planning proposals could risk local voice
- Hedgerows are the overlooked climate heroes of new government action plans
- Planning Bill could bulldoze Environment Bill, warns CPRE
- Sounding the alarm on disappearing natural beauty
- Rural rail re-opening will help Devon thrive
- We offer condolences on the death of His Royal Highness The Prince Philip
- Good news on making sure communities get affordable housing they need
- ‘Lockdown effect’ sees light pollution plummet, our Star Count results show
- CPRE welcomes an update to the Countryside Code that we helped to create
- The deposit return recycling scheme is delayed… again
- Our new report shows that a bus for every village, every hour is possible
- CPRE welcomes the news that the Oxford-Cambridge expressway road is canned
- CPRE has signed an open letter against the Policing Bill. Here’s why
- New findings: we EACH waste 126 empty containers a year in the UK
- The government has announced a new bus strategy. Does it do enough?
- Promising coal mine news as government changes tack
- We comment on the 2021 spring budget: ‘It doesn’t add up’
- Pressure on our Green Belts quadruples – just when we need our green spaces
- Rural groups warn ‘don’t leave countryside behind’
- Promising signs as planned new Cumbrian coal mine is reconsidered
- We join 80 organisations in saying no to a new Cumbrian coal mine
- Our letter to the Prime Minister: stop the new Cumbrian coal mine
- We tell government: we need a reliable bus service for every community
- Changes to trespass rules would create more hurdles to countryside access
- A joint vision: we share a toolbox of principles for better planning
- 2020: CPRE’s impact
- Spotting a whole new kind of litter in 2020? You’re not alone
- The government has had a rethink on their unpopular planning changes
- Good news: compost made of peat, climate-saving ‘soggy soil’, is phased out
- We join with councillors and FoE to oppose dismantling of planning system
- Time to tackle climate emergency head on, says CPRE
- Over 300,000 of us tell government: don’t push through bad planning changes
- New government targets to slash emissions are a major milestone
- The government have shared post-Brexit farming plans. There’s good news
- The government spending review: rural communities must get their share
- Our poll shows over half of MPs oppose the government’s planning changes
- We comment on the Prime Minister’s new ten-point climate plan
- We join Shelter, Greenpeace and more to say: don’t forget social housing
- Our research shows new rural housing can turbocharge the economy
- There’s already enough suitable land to meet targets for new homes, we find
- As MPs revolt against proposed planning changes, we’re at the heart of the debate
- We comment on the citizens’ assembly on climate change report
- We sign the Wildlife & Countryside Link diversity and anti-racism statement
- Peat: the ‘soggy soil’ that could make net-zero carbon emissions possible
- We ask questions of the government’s proposed major reforms to planning
- Plastic bag use has dropped dramatically. We look at the next steps
- We join seventeen charities in calling for limits to planning deregulation
- Homes for heroes: affordable housing for rural key workers
- CPRE statement on equality, inclusivity and diversity
- As we launch a manifesto for a greener future, we join a mass climate lobby
- Responding to the ‘new deal’, we call for greater green ambition and share our vision
- CPRE statement against racism in the countryside
- The countryside is key: we respond to a new climate change report urging rapid action
- Don’t let planning deregulation lead to poor quality housing, says CPRE
- We say: revive our council farms
- As the Housing Secretary calls for planning reform: we say ‘move forwards, not back’
- Lockdown learnings: we want richer green spaces
- Star Count 2020: the results are in
- CPRE calls on government to make planning work locally
- How lockdown has brought us closer to each other – and the countryside
- Keeping planning democratic: planning for a pandemic, planning for beyond
- CPRE supports calls for government to build a resilient, green recovery
- Keep local green spaces open during lockdown, CPRE says
- We respond to the proposed return of skywriting after a 60-year ban
- We welcome Sir Keir Starmer, new Labour leader, with a message
- We respond to the COP 26 climate change conference news
- Coronavirus and CPRE
- A step towards a planning system that delivers for people and the countryside?
- Our research identifies rural ‘transport deserts’: do you live in one?
- Change how we use land, says new climate change report: our response
- Badly designed homes – what can we do?
- Government follows CPRE’s lead in recognising the value of soil
- Welcoming new Bills for climate and nature
- Innovation on county farms
- What the countryside needs from the new government
- Housing hustings: what, where and how?
- Why the countryside is a vote winner with parents
- Our vote for the countryside
- The government ditched fracking: here’s how we did it
- Celebrations as government ditches fracking
- A comprehensive deposit return scheme is vital
- Our Green Clean litter pick: the results
- CPRE recommendations adopted by Glover review of National Parks and AONBs
- New CPRE research shines a spotlight on the rural housing crisis
- The public supports a deposit return scheme for drinks, cans and bottles
- Reversing biodiversity loss
- New definition of ‘affordable’ homes could slash rural rent prices by up to a half
- Hedgerows can address climate change, says new report
- New report sets out 10-year plan for farming to address the climate crisis
- The Time Is Now mass lobby
- 2019: CPRE’s impact
- CPRE joins with Shelter to push for change to the way land is valued
- CPRE backs new project to improve the design of houses
- We’re calling for government investment to end the housing crisis
- Counting stars: what our 2019 results showed
- Building on derelict land has huge potential to regenerate towns and cities
- Helping people enjoy the benefits of England’s special landscapes
- Fly-tipping is rising – but we’re on the case
- Why we’re working for starry, starry skies
- National Parks and AONBs: we want access for all
- Our campaign against fracking
- Why we cycle
- Why we walk
- 2018: CPRE’s impact
- New deposit return announcement: cause for celebration
Stories Posts
- Christopher Somerville on a wintry walk in the Peak District
- A Wild Becoming by Dal Kular
- England’s fascinating fenlands and why they need to be protected
- A country journal of a Blackwoman: ‘whose blood runs with the tides’
- Mary-Ann Ochota: ‘Time spent in green space is a wonder drug’
- Morning Light: the ‘life-giving’ power of an autumnal morning walk
- Planner Katie Atkinson on the countryside and volunteering for CPRE
- Ros’ top tips for growing your own food on a budget
- Hedgerow Heroes phase 3: nine new local CPRE hedgerow projects
- A sense of belonging in the countryside
- John Wright on the charm of the Dorset downlands
- CPRE Somerset’s quest to tackle litter
- Solar farm risks ‘our livelihood and our home’, farmer Emma tells us
- Mike Dilger – ‘plants opened up a world of wonder’
- A hedge I made earlier: Steph’s hedge of Blue Peter fame
- Mind matters: boosting mental health in our countryside communities
- Troubled waters: taking action on England’s rivers
- Rural, affordable and sustainable
- Feargal Sharkey’s mission to protect England’s rivers and streams
- Walking to untangle our minds
- Meet CPRE Derbyshire’s Chair, John Ydlibi
- A green patchwork: Baroness Floella Benjamin’s first impressions of England
- Unearthing the roots of Britain’s woodland conservation movement
- Reviving local hedgerows
- Hedgerow Heroes phase 2: explore this year’s projects
- To everything a season – autumn reflections
- Harvest tea: Sarah Langford on reconnecting with rural traditions
- Access all areas: making the countryside more inclusive
- Crafting the countryside: a hedgelayer’s life
- Helen Glover MBE: ‘I was definitely a wilding’
- Our countryside companions: how dog walks help us connect to the outdoors
- Stepping up for green spaces
- ‘I’m a hippy from the Cotswolds’; Adjoa Andoh’s rural roots
- ‘The outdoors is for everyone’
- Somerset’s smallest Pride: the rural communities stepping out
- Make yourself a(t) home: finding queer identity in the countryside
- A new generation of countryside rangers
- Hayden Bridgeman: custodian of the countryside
- Godfrey Francis: sharing a love of landscape
- Volunteering as a Hedgerow Hero
- Restoring hedgerows for wildlife
- Elena Mannion on The Happy Hedgerow
- Diversifying the outdoors: the hiking and adventure group for Muslim women
- ‘We can learn so much from its rhythms’: self-care inspired by the seasons
- A poetic reverie: reflections on a year spent getting closer to nature
- Creating my biodiverse wildflower field
- CPRE’s Hedgerow Heroes – the volunteers restoring local landscapes
- To our award-winning volunteers: thank you
- Creating a community litter initiative
- Championing local food in Sussex
- Rural roles: A farm vet’s life
- Countryside dreams in Leicester’s South Asian communities
- Relationships at a distance: being a volunteer coordinator in a pandemic
- ‘I want to do my bit’: a passionate protector
- Leading by example
- Fighting for the countryside
- ‘I hope I make decision-makers think about what they’re doing’
- The next generation steps up
- Kate Ashbrook: a life in campaigning
- Chris Boardman: ‘My England’
- The invisible barriers that hold people back from enjoying the countryside
- Saluting our volunteers
- Breaking down barriers to the great outdoors
- Jamie Feilden: changing children’s lives with farm stays
- Craig Grimes: helping disabled people access all areas of the countryside
- On duty with a Dales district nurse
- Sandra and Millie: no ‘no entry’ sign on the countryside for wheelchair users
- Alex Staniforth: the adventurer finding better mental health outdoors
- Remembrance Day: the landscapes they left behind
- Celebrating trustees in the CPRE network
- Celebrating Black history through five English landscapes
- The Treeumphant vision
- I want to ride my bicycle: cycling and me
- Something in my essence: race and nature connections
- Maxwell Ayamba: ‘My England’
- Creating countryside content
- Saving landscapes for future generations
- Helping out in Hampshire
- Soothing spaces: nature and our mental health
- An internship with a difference
- Green-fingered talk for budding gardeners
- Sharing strategy skills
- Countryside quiz champions rural life
- Warwickshire on the web
- The power of planting
- Finding green in the grey: nature for wellbeing and health
- Making a splash: wellness and wild swimming
- Hedgelaying in the Oxford Green Belt
- A warm welcome in South Yorkshire
- Connecting with the countryside
- Children and young people in the countryside: making a connection
- Our National Park memories
- Looking back at CPRE’s litter campaign successes
- How countryside communities are championing new affordable homes
- Why this patch of Green Belt means so much to my family
- Cleaning up the Isle of Wight’s countryside
- Growing food in the heart of the city
- The farmers bringing their soils back to life
- How allotments are feeding community spirit
- Spreading the word with Rosalind, CPRE Wiltshire volunteer
- Hedgelaying: a countryside craft
- On the trail of local food heritage
- The story of England’s National Parks
- Could this community’s plans for its local farm be a blueprint for the future?
- Garden cities for the 21st century
Discover Posts
- Woodland wonders: five ways to feel more connected to trees
- Coming to the countryside near you: wildlife in November
- Seasonal festivals and the passing of time
- The humble apple and a vision for change
- Mental health and green spaces
- Coming to the countryside near you: wildlife in October
- Coming to the countryside near you: wildlife in September
- Folklore of the land
- Octavia Hill’s vision for the Green Belt
- Read an extract from Call of the Kingfisher
- Coming to the countryside near you: wildlife in August
- A place in the country: George Alagiah on the English countryside
- Wildflowers and wildlife at Deer Park Farm
- Coming to the countryside near you: wildlife in July
- Celebrating the longest day of the year
- Coming to the countryside near you: wildlife in June
- Hedgerow wildlife in May
- The origins of May Day and Beltane
- Coming to the countryside near you: wildlife in May
- Five historic Roman landscapes to explore
- Seasonal adventures: things to do in the countryside this spring
- Coming to the countryside near you: wildlife in April
- A journey through the joys of spring
- Coming to the countryside near you: wildlife in March
- Great reads: CPRE staff share their favourite books
- Waiting for spring
- How to find constellations in the night sky
- An astronomer’s guide to stargazing with the naked eye
- Seven romantic landscapes for Valentine’s day and beyond
- Coming to the countryside near you: wildlife in February
- Wild words: five books for winter chosen by nature writers
- Happy hibernation: winter wellness tips inspired by nature
- Five ways to make your Star Count sparkle
- England’s best spots for stargazing
- Written in the stars
- Sounds of the night
- A month in the countryside: connecting with nature in January
- Tips for a winter walk
- Steve Wright’s top tips for a British wildlife holiday
- Pay a visit to England’s mysterious landscapes
- Wild enthusiasm: the ancestral tales of our landscapes
- The season to be jolly: rural festivities to lift your spirits
- A countryside walk in December
- Comfort food: five seasonal British recipes for autumn and winter
- Tree time: 20 facts about trees you might not know
- Ten ways that you and your rural community can tackle climate change
- A countryside walk in November
- Hidden histories of the countryside: Black lives in south west England
- Witches and where to find them … if you dare!
- Nourishing nature: small ways we can make a difference as the days draw in
- Listening to a landscape: the calming sounds of nature
- A countryside walk in October
- Back to the source
- A place in the country: rethinking country estates
- A countryside walk in September
- Beaches uncovered: our ancient coastlines
- Exploring hedgerow wildlife in summer and autumn
- Hedgerow foraging guide
- Gardens with star quality
- A countryside walk in August
- Go wild in the country: child-friendly nature activities this summer
- Exploring the seashore: a spotter’s guide
- Step into history with these pilgrims’ walking routes
- Roam with a view: landscapes off the beaten track
- Come on in, the water’s lovely! Our top open water swimming spots
- A countryside walk in July
- Was that a bat?
- Spotting brilliant summer butterflies
- A countryside walk in June
- Celebrating LGBT+ histories in our countryside
- Seven stone circles that aren’t Stonehenge
- In praise of the night
- A countryside walk in May
- Bluebell heaven is a place on earth
- Six blossoms to spot through spring
- Chalking it up: the mysterious figures striding across our hills
- Going local for Easter
- A countryside walk in April
- Spring into foraging now the leaves are green
- A countryside walk in March
- Wonder women for women’s day
- Take the high road: five elevated routes for walking and cycling
- Have a flipping great pancake day
- A countryside walk in February
- Ducks, divers, waders and geese: wetlands and wildfowl for your wild heart
- Poohsticks: our favourite bridges to play Winnie the Pooh’s game
- How to embrace the season – and yourself
- A countryside walk in January
- Going on a chilly winter walk? Time to play our walk bingo!
- Hark, the creaky descants sing … carolling for beginners
- Eight ways to help the countryside in winter, wherever you live
- A month in the countryside: connecting with nature in December
- Winter wander advent calendar
- On a winter walk: following the tree trail
- A month in the countryside: connecting with nature in November
- Remember, remember, the fifth of November
- Spider season again! The top six spiders you’ll spot at home in autumn
- Why autumn mist makes the countryside
- The spookiest Halloween traditions you’ve never heard of
- A month in the countryside: connecting with nature in October
- What’s that rustling in the hedgerow? Hedgerow wildlife to hear and see
- Celebrating England’s hedgerows
- A month in the countryside: connecting with nature in September
- Brownfield is best: how CPRE promotes recycling land for new homes
- A beginner’s guide to stargazing
- A month in the countryside: connecting with nature in August
- Parklife: a hint of the countryside
- A month in the countryside: connecting with nature in July
- Well dressing: an ancient art
- A month in the countryside: connecting with nature in June
- The countryside next door: Victoria Ekpo explores Liverpool’s Green Belt
- Hedgerow highlights: milestones from CPRE’s 95 years of campaigning
- Celebrating community woodland
- A month in the countryside: connecting with nature in May
- How we helped to end fracking
- Permissive to public: know your pathways
- Listening out for the dawn chorus
- Bringing back beauty
- Life on the river
- A month in the countryside: connecting with nature in April
- A dip into pond life
- A month in the countryside: connecting with nature in March
- Leading the way: CPRE’s pioneering women
- Coast path creatures: a spotter’s guide
- A month in the countryside: connecting with nature in February
- Introducing Orion: a stargazing craft activity for families
- Here be dragons!
- Six ways to feel close to the countryside in a winter lockdown
- Strandline surprises: what to look out for on a winter coastal walk
- Helping wildlife through the winter
- Babies, it’s cold outside: family fun ways to connect to nature in winter
- Christmas, but make it eco: our tips to make your holiday season greener
- Susie White’s wonders of winter
- Festive feasting
- The holly and the ivy…
- How to make a festive wreath
- 10 green acts of Christmas kindness
- Clare Balding on caring for our countryside and the pleasures of rambling
- Earth Pilgrim: Satish Kumar on Dartmoor’s natural mystery
- It’s traditional – Christmas festivities old and new
- Save our soils: what you need to know about the earth beneath our feet
- Marking a place with memory
- A day in the life of the woodsman
- Powered by air: wind power past, present and future
- Discover traditional winter festivals
- Hedgerows through the seasons
- Somerset’s cider farms – a true English icon
- Countryside, cows, conversation, women and walking
- Nature’s bounty: England’s orchards
- Harvest traditions in England
- Focused foraging: finding seasonal autumn food
- Enjoy the autumn colours in England’s historic forests
- Departures: migrating birds to look out for as they leave our shores
- Shutterbugs: expert tips on photographing the great outdoors
- Folk’s new pathways
- Celebrating the countryside next door
- Harvest time nature: a spotter’s guide
- Celebrating our meadows
- Marvellous moths
- Countryside is key: the top five ways the countryside can tackle climate change
- 10 reasons why we love community energy – for people and planet
- Looking up for late spring stargazing
- A bat’s eye view
- Noticing nature: summer wildlife to look out for
- Through the webcam: wildlife on the web
- Celebrating the month of May
- Mackenzie Crook on his love of the landscape
- Countryside books for children and young adults
- The power of flowers
- In Wordsworth’s footsteps
- Reading list: our favourite countryside books
- Countryside connections
- Countryside calling
- The South Downs after dark
- Peace of mind
- When a blue view is good for you: why we love our wetlands
- Winter walks
- How to find the best local food near you
- A natural history of hedgerows
- Railways reinvented
- Free to forage
- Explore historic countryside castles
- Cook an autumn feast
- Spot some weird and wonderful fungi
Resources
- Unravelling a crisis: the state of rural affordable housing in England
- Local Green Spaces Report 2023
- General Election Manifesto 2023
- Evidence submission: Major roads/motorways investment plan (February 2023)
- CPRE Call for Evidence Response to Transport Select Committee (August 2023)
- National Highways Consultation: Connecting the Country feedback form
- State of the Green Belt 2023: A vision for the 21st century
- CPRE 2022 Statutory Accounts: Report and Financial Statements
- Still targeting the countryside
- Rooftop solar report – executive summary
- Shout from the rooftops: delivering a common sense solar revolution
- Star Count 2023 results map
- National Planning Policy Framework consultation response (March 2023)
- CPRE climate emergency policy and supporting topic papers
- Star Count 2023 family activity pack
- State of brownfield report 2022
- Farming and hedgerows report December 2022
- CPRE submission of evidence for net zero review 2022
- Annual accounts and financial statements 2021
- Invitation to tender landscape scenarios
- Stillingfleet community energy vision
- Thornton-le-Dale community energy vision
- Building on our food security
- Our year: a review of 2021-22
- Loftus community energy vision
- The countryside next door
- CPRE members’ guide
- Reimagining council farms: full report
- Reimagining council farms: executive summary and recommendations
- Climate emergency: time for planning to get on the case
- Hedgerow detective: KS2 teachers’ Hedgerow challenge PowerPoint
- Hedgerow detective: KS1 teachers’ notes
- Hedgerow detective: KS1 teachers’ notes
- Hedgerow detective: KS1 worksheets
- Hedgerow detective: KS1 worksheets
- Hedgerow detective: KS1 worksheets
- Hedgerow detective: KS2 worksheets
- Hedgerow detective: KS2 worksheets
- Hedgerow detective: KS2 worksheets
- Hedgerow detective: KS2 teachers’ notes
- Hedgerow detective: KS2 teachers’ notes
- CPRE statement on solar energy
- Local Green Spaces report, 2022
- A little rough guide around the hedges
- Star Count 2022 family activity pack
- Fieldwork: Winter 2021
- Recycling our land: the state of brownfield report, 2021
- CPRE response to the OxCam Vision consultation, 2021
- Young people in rural areas: a report
- Hedge fund: technical appendices
- Hedge fund: executive summary
- Hedge fund: investing in hedgerows for climate, nature and the economy
- Fieldwork: Summer 2021
- Brownfield land register toolkit
- A research overview: Access to nature in the English countryside, 2021
- The future of environmental planning: notes of a seminar, 28 April 2021
- Planning for affordable housing: priorities for the Planning Bill
- Annual accounts and financial statements 2020
- Six tests for planning
- Our year: a review of 2020-21
- CPRE response to Introducing a DRS consultation, 2021
- From wasted space to living spaces: the availability of brownfield land
- Cleaner Counties project summary
- Beauty still betrayed: The state of our AONBs 2021
- Fieldwork: Spring 2021
- CPRE response to NPPF-NMDC consultation proposals
- Every village, every hour 2021 buses report: model
- Every village, every hour 2021 buses report: details of modelling approach
- Every village, every hour 2021 buses report: full report
- Every village, every hour 2021 buses report: executive summary
- CPRE local and mayoral election manifesto 2021
- State of the Green Belt 2021
- Towards a greener Green Book process
- Joint letter on the proposal to criminalise trespass
- A joint vision for planning, 2021
- Litter in lockdown 2020: summary findings
- Fieldwork: Winter 2020
- Statement on equality, inclusivity and diversity leadership in CPRE
- Annual accounts and financial statements 2019
- CPRE response to changes to the current planning system consultation
- Summary CPRE response to Planning white paper and proposals, 2020
- Full CPRE response to the Planning white paper consultation, 2020
- State of brownfield 2020: executive summary
- Investing in rural affordable housing after the pandemic
- Recycling our land: the state of brownfield, 2020
- CPRE response to the England Tree Strategy consultation
- CPRE response to the Contracts for Difference consultation
- Our submission to the Transport Decarbonisation consultation, 2020
- Fieldwork: Summer 2020
- Affordable housing guide 2020
- Our year: a review of 2019-20
- Greener, better, faster: executive summary
- Greener, better, faster
- Regenerate our countryside, regenerate ourselves: a post-corona manifesto
- Annual accounts and financial statements 2018
- Annual accounts and financial statements 2017
- Annual accounts and financial statements 2016
- What’s the plan? full report
- What’s the plan? executive summary
- Litter Law Report
- Fieldwork: Winter 2019
- Fieldwork: Spring 2020
- Green Belt: CPRE’s policy position
- Transport deserts report
- Transport deserts report: a summary
- 2019 Housing design audit: South West region factsheet
- 2019 Housing design audit: Greater London region factsheet
- Housing design audit for England: report
- 2019 Housing design audit: East of England region factsheet
- 2019 Housing design audit: East Midlands region factsheet
- 2019 Housing design audit: North West region factsheet
- 2019 Housing design audit: South East region factsheet
- 2019 Housing design audit: Yorkshire and Humber region factsheet
- 2019 Housing design audit: West Midlands region factsheet
- 2019 Housing design audit: North East region factsheet
- Reviving county farms
- Our year: a review of 2018-19
- CPRE membership form for organisations
- State of brownfield 2019: data
- Our countryside: a manifesto for the next government
- A positive vision for London’s Green Belt
- Reclassification and development of Green Belt land
- The use of greenfield and brownfield land in Green Belt housing & commercial projects
- Space to breathe: State of the Green Belt, 2019
- Redefining Affordability – a CPRE Briefing
- Our strategic plan 2020-2026
- Our strategic plan 2020-2026: a summary
- CPRE’s response to the Affordable Housing Commission call for evidence
- CPRE Local election manifesto 2019
- State of brownfield 2019
- What we achieved in 2018
- CPRE’s policy on the Oxford-Milton Keynes-Cambridge Arc
- Back to the land: rethinking our approach to soil
- CPRE’s policy on regeneration of the Thames Estuary
- Cambridge – Milton Keynes – Oxford: A Corridor of Uncertainty for the Countryside
- CPRE membership form for individuals and households
- Permitted development for shale gas exploration
- Inclusion of shale gas production projects in the Nationally Significant Infrastructure Project Regime
- State of the Green Belt 2018
- Environmental Principles and Governance after the UK leaves the EU
- Next steps for LEPs
- CPRE briefing: Response to Written Ministerial Statement on Fracking
- Response to Defra’s consultation on Introducing a Deposit Return Scheme
- ‘Tackling the plastic problem’: CPRE joint response
- Green Belt facts
- CPRE response to the Government’s National Planning Policy Framework consultation
- CPRE response to the Government’s consultation on a post-Brexit agricultural policy
- CPRE’s response to Major Roads Network Consultation
- Land promoters: a CPRE briefing
- CPRE written evidence to EAC Inquiry 25-year Plan
- Viable villages: closing the planning loophole
- State of brownfield 2018
- Unlocking potential: best practice for brownfield land registers
- Beauty betrayed
- CPRE’s response to the NIC’s National Infrastructure Assessment
- CPRE’s response to the Raynsford Review’s Call for Evidence
- Impacts of a Deposit Refund System on Local Authority Waste Services
- Needless Demand: How a focus on need can help solve the housing crisis
- Energy Scenarios Report 2017
- Fieldwork: Summer 2019
- Fieldwork: Spring 2019
- Fieldwork: Winter 2018
- Fieldwork: Summer 2018
- Fieldwork: Spring 2018
- Fieldwork: Winter 2017
- Fieldwork: Summer 2017
- Uncertain harvest: does the loss of farms matter?
- What’s Special To You: Landscape Issues In Your Neighbourhood Plan
- Annual review 2017-18
- CPRE manifesto for General Election 2017
- Fieldwork: Spring 2017
- The end of the road? Challenging the road-building consensus
- The Impact of Road Projects in England
- Landlines: why we need a strategic approach to land
- Local food: your pocket guide
- Nature Conservation and Recreational Opportunities in the Green Belt
- Our Green Belt: worth investing in
- National Parks: Planning for the Future
- Fieldwork: Winter 2016
- Future Energy Landscapes: A new approach to local energy planning
- On Solid Ground
- Housing capacity on suitable brownfield land
- Ensuring Place-Responsive Design for Solar Photovoltaics on Buildings
- Making the Link
- New model farming
- Fieldwork: Summer 2016
- Night Blight 2016: Mapping England’s Light Pollution and Dark Skies
- Night Blight 2016: Key Stage 1 lesson plan
- Night Blight 2016: Key Stage 2 lesson plan
- England’s Light Pollution and Dark Skies
- CPRE response to: Technical consultation on the implementation of planning changes
- CPRE response to: recommendations made by the Local Plans Expert Group
- Dark skies map background report and methodology (2016)
- Brownfield comes first
- New Homes Bonus: Sharpening the incentive
- National Infrastructure Commission
- Future Investment in the North’s Transport Infrastructure
- Fieldwork: Spring 2016
- Fieldwork: Winter 2015
- Set up to fail: why housing targets based on flawed numbers threaten our countryside
- Smarter SHMAs: A Review of Objectively Assessed Need in England
- EmPower Communities – Community energy workshop
- A Living Countryside
- Rural Reconnections
- Getting Houses Built
- Beautiful by design
- Give peace a chance
- Warm and Green
- A beautiful countryside to sustain us all – CPRE manifesto briefing
- Better brownfield
- A beautiful countryside to sustain us all through food and farming – CPRE manifesto briefing
- A beautiful countryside to sustain us all – CPRE manifesto briefing 2016
- The right housing in the right places – CPRE manifesto briefing
- National Networks National Policy Statement
- Landscapes for everyone: creating a better future
- From wasted space to living spaces: report appendices
- Shedding light report: summary
- Better not bigger
- Removing obstacles to brownfield development
- CPRE housing supply research
- Increasing supplier diversity in the house building sector
- Shedding Light
- Light pollution as a Statutory Nuisance: A ‘how to’ guide
- Plan B: How to challenge bad developments in court
- Fieldwork: Summer 2015
- Mapping Local Food Webs Toolkit
- CPRE’s Vision for the future of farming: Dairy farming
- CPRE’s Vision for the future of farming: Pig and poultry farming
- CPRE’s Vision for the future of farming: Horticulture
- CPRE’s Vision for the future of farming: Beef and sheep farming
- CPRE’s Vision for the future of farming: Arable farming
- Securing the value of nature
- Annual Review 2012/13
- From field to fork: The value of England’s local food webs
- Protecting the wider countryside
- How to shape where you live: a guide to neighbourhood planning
- CPRE’s Vision for the future of farming
- Planning explained
- How to respond to planning applications
- From waste to work: the potential for a deposit refund system to create jobs in the UK
- Tranquillity Mapping: Developing a robust methodology for planning support
- Litter Abatement Orders
- Get Generating
- Have we got the bottle? (summary report)
- Have we got the bottle?
- England’s hedgerows: don’t cut them out!
- Hedgerow Regulations FAQs
- Affordable Housing Keeps Villages Alive
- Green Belts: A greener future
- 2026 – A vision for the countryside
- A Countryside Friendly Smart Grid
- Litterbugs – How to Deal with the Problem of Littering
- How to Run a Whole School Litter Campaign
- Developing an Intrusion Map of England
- Intrusion Map: England, early 1960s
- Intrusion Map: England, early 1990s
- Intrusion Map: England, 2007
- England’s Fragmented Countryside: Ranking of Counties and Unitary Authorities
- Planning for Housing Affordability
- How green is my region?
- Tranquillity Map: England
- Compact Sustainable Communities
- Saving Tranquil Places
- Making Our Mark
- CPRE’s policy on waste
- Unlocking the Landscape
- Mapping Tranquillity
- CPRE’s Guide to Quiet Lanes
- Third Party Rights of Appeal in Planning
- Plan B – How to challenge bad developments in court
- Even Regions, Greener Growth
Topics
- About CPRE
- Best of the countryside
- Campaigning
- Cleaner countryside
- Climate emergency
- Countryside for all
- Dark skies
- Farming
- Fracking
- Hedgerows
- Homes people can afford
- Landscapes
- Local food
- Local transport
- Renewable energy
- Roads
- Rural communities
- The countryside next door
- Tranquil places
- What gets built and where
- Zero waste
