Click here to read The Commission for Rural Communitie report.

Click here to view ‘Threats to North Yorkshire’ flyer.

Click here to read the new CPRE North Yorkshire Winter Newsletter.  If you would like a paper copy of the newsletter posting to you please email info@cprenorthyorkshire.org.uk

Natural England has just published a report called Experiencing landscapes: capturing the cultural services and experiential qualities of landscape, which we thought might be of interest.
 
The study was commissioned to feed into longer term updating of England’s National Character Areas (NCA) descriptions.  Referring to the contribution that landscape can make to quality of life, NE [...]

Click here to download the Spring/Summer 2009 Newsletter

“I have much enjoyed a book called “Sustainable Energy Without the Hot Air” by David JC MacKay.
The writer is Professor at the Cavendish lab in Cambridge and he discusses all forms of energy production, the available resources and our usage contrasting the two. He tries - and I believe succeeds - to show the trivial [...]

Comprehensive Area Assessment
 
• CAA is designed to put the experience of citizens at the centre of the assessment process, reduce inequalities and address discrimination.
 
• Local councils, primary care trusts, police authorities, fire and rescue authorities, children’s trusts and other public bodies will be expected to demonstrate increasing partnership working to tackle challenges in which many TSOs are [...]

Click here to dowload a copy of Landscape Matters, A Sustainable Environment for the Communities of North Yorkshire.

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) [1] today (Monday) expressed alarm at a Government review into the planning system [2] recommending that local authorities should be able to choose whether to publish planning applications in local newspapers or not.
CPRE planning campaigner Richard Moseley said:
‘This recommendation could leave local people unaware of development proposals [...]

The report of the Matthew Taylor Review into affordable rural housing and the rural economy which was commissioned by Gordon Brown has now been published.
The Prime Minister asked Matthew Taylor, MP for Truro and St Austell, to conduct a review on how land use and planning can better support rural business and deliver affordable housing. [...]