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CPRE responds to proposed housing and environmental changes, warning they could put countryside protections and environmental ...

Love Your Countryside month — an invitation to everyone, whether they've known CPRE for years or had never heard of us, to spend September celebrating the countryside in their lives.

The Energy Independence Bill (EIB) is expected in Parliament in the coming weeks. It’s one of the biggest energy laws in a ...

New research from the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has found that England has enough available brownfield land to accommodate more than 1.54 million new homes, exceeding the Government’s ...

Farmland that could grow 250,000 tonnes of vegetables a year lost to development, CPRE research shows • Two million fewer people can be fed their five a day from vegetables homegrown in England as ...

The government can and should deliver its commitment to source 50% of public sector food locally or to higher environmental standards, while supporting economic growth, food security and protection of ...

Following a call for evidence, the government announced this week that it will not be taking foward a policy on solar canopies on new car parks. CPRE is disappointed by this decision, which comes ...

CPRE has responded to the publication of the government’s Land Use Framework, welcoming its ambition while urging stronger safeguards to ensure the countryside is protected as competing demands on ...

A new CPRE report warns that the government’s Land Use Framework, expected on Wednesday, will not solve the fundamental question of what gets built where. The report argues that policy tools to guide ...

Demand has never been higher on England’s finite land, with 1.5 million new homes planned during this parliament alone, in the context of a changing climate. Yet decisions on land are not integrated, ...