The Daily Telegraph has published a piece about how litter is blighting Britain - read it here.

The dream of the Yorkshire Dales National Park’s first community hydro is becoming a reality thanks to the hard work and dedication of people who are passionate about the environment in Bainbridge.
Specifically set up for the purpose of generating hydro electricity, the River Bain Hydro Ltd plans to install a 45kW plant which will generate [...]

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

At the recent Harrogate District Branch AGM, CPRE member Mr Russell-Floyd raised the subject of Himalayan Balsam and the problem of its continuing dominance of the river banks. District Chair, Linda Potter took advice on the matter from CPRE’s national office and received a most helpful reply from Emma Marrington, Rural Policy Campaigner. Emma’s partner [...]

CPRE North Yorkshire in conjunction with Friends of the Lake District (CPRE for the North West) are organising walking the 14 stages of Alfred Wainwright’s Coast to Coast walk between the 14th and 30th September 2009.
You are invited to walk one, several, or even all of these stages to celebrate many milestones, which among others include [...]

On Wednesday 4th February more than 80 people packed into the tiny village hall at Thornton-le-Street for a public meeting before the parish council formally voted to oppose the scheme.
The chairman of the North Yorkshire branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England David Clarke told those at the meeting: “The key thing any planning [...]

For the month of February photographs taken by CPRE Craven Chair Hilary Fenten will be on display in the Italian town of Tolmezzo, which is twinned with Skipton’s twin town Simbach, Germany. Most of the pictures are of the landscape and people of the Yorkshire Dales with many Winter shots.
These images have previously been on display in Simbach. [...]

The pictorial pub sign is the number one “Icon of England”, according to a recent poll by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) [1].
Author Sebastian Faulks nominated the pub sign to be included in a list of countryside icons created for an online public vote [2]. Pub signs got 14.5% of the public vote, [...]

As the Government’s Planning Bill receives Royal Assent today (Wednesday), countryside campaigners CPRE [1] express doubts about how well the main reforms it contains will work in practice.
Paul Miner, CPRE’s Senior Planning Campaigner commented:
‘We have monitored the Bill closely throughout its passage through Parliament. Some of it is sensible. But we doubt that [...]

CPRE [1] today (Wednesday) raised concerns that ‘ordinary’ countryside could become neglected following the introduction by Natural England [2] of a new method of targeting applications by farmers to England’s top level green farming scheme [3].
Ian Woodhurst, CPRE’s Senior Farming Campaigner, said:
‘CPRE has long recognised that more money is needed to support farmer’s management of [...]