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HedgerowsEngland’s hedgerows: don’t cut them out!30 August 2010
New research released by CPRE finds that more hedgerows then ever before are now being protected (42 per cent) with an 18 per cent increase since CPRE’s last survey in 1998 [1]. However the overall length of England’s managed hedgerows fell by 26,000 km (6 per cent) between 1998 and 2007 [2].
Roadside ClutterCPRE welcomes Pickles call to de-clutter the Countryside26 August 2010
CPRE is celebrating moves by the Government to take action on signage clutter. Communities Secretary Eric Pickles and Transport Secretary Philip Hammond are writing to councils to ask them to 'cut the clutter', echoing calls first made by CPRE in 1996 in its groundbreaking report ‘The Cluttered Countryside.’
Planning systemThe Big Society should mean stronger rights to challenge bad planning decisions, say CPRE and ELF19 August 2010
As the Government begins to explain what the ‘Big Society’ might mean for local communities, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) are calling on Ministers not to pull a U-turn on their promise to rebalance rights of appeal in the planning process.
Building sustainable communities"Do or die" challenge for rural communities16 August 2010
Britain’s rural villages are at risk of dying unless radical action is taken to secure their future, it is being warned. A newly formed Rural Coalition, made up of leading organisations which represent rural interests, is calling on the Government to deliver on its Big Society vision by radically empowering local people to shape the rural places in which they live. Local foodsSupermarket watchdog warmly welcomed03 August 2010
Graeme Willis, Senior Rural Policy Campaigner for CPRE, welcomes Government plans for a new Groceries Code Adjudicator to monitor and enforce the Groceries Supply Code of Practice between supermarkets and their suppliers.
Housing supplyCommunity Right to Build needs further thought, say CPRE23 July 2010
Fiona Howie, Head of Planning at the Campaign to Protect Rural England, responds to Grant Shapps plans for a new ‘Community Right to Build’. |
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