Following the Government’s announcement today (Tuesday) confirming the Infrastructure Planning Commission will be abolished, Fiona Howie, Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) Head of Planning, says:
 
“This announcement will be seen as a victory for local people who will no longer fear the threat of unelected bureaucrats forcing through unwanted development. Decisions on major infrastructure projects [...]

As Bike Week comes to a close, a new report by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) shows that the central target in London’s ‘cycling revolution’ is fundamentally flawed [1, 2]. The report demonstrates how the Mayor’s Transport Strategy is actually anticipating a slow down in the growth of cycling, and calls for the [...]

In response to the Budget delivered today by George Osborne, Ben Stafford, Head of Campaigns at CPRE, says:
 
“In a Budget that focused on significant cuts to spending and changes to taxation, the Chancellor had relatively little to say on the environment. We hope this does not indicate a retreat by Ministers from their desire to [...]

On Wednesday 9th June the Wensleydale branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) met in Horsehouse to remember Isobel Paton who had previously lived in the lower Dales village of Crakehall. 
Miss Paton, who died in 2005, was a member of the CPRE and on her death bequested CPRE Wensleydale the land which she [...]

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The Craven branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) says it is committed to helping protest groups battle against “inappropriate” wind farms and “speculative” housing developments in sensitive areas.
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CPRE calls for an end to man-made clutter in the countryside
 
Countryside campaigners CPRE [1] are today (Wednesday) calling for action to reduce the proliferation of man made clutter that is choking the landscape. The charity argues that our ‘Green and Pleasant land’ is being lost under a blanket of overhead wires, phone masts, advertising boards, [...]

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) welcomes the emphasis on carbon storage and water management in a new report published today (Tuesday) by the CRC on the challenges facing England’s upland areas which contain almost three quarters of our most valued landscapes [1]. The latest in a long line of reports, CPRE hopes its [...]

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) today (Wednesday) calls for close attention to be paid to an ambitious report that proposes to make Britain carbon neutral by 2030 [1], and particularly its implications for the countryside.
 
The report, ‘Zero Carbon Britain 2030,’ published by the Centre for Alternative Technology, rightly puts energy reduction at the [...]

The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has today (Tuesday) expressed serious concerns that 40 per cent of farmers do not intend to participate in the Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE) [1], set up to retain the environmental benefits of the abolished set aside scheme [2], according to the latest Defra survey [3].
 
CPRE recognises [...]