CPRE submits response to consultation on planning system, cpre.org.uk (Sep 25, 2024) — Among CPRE's many recommendations in response to the wide scope of the consultation, CPRE calls for a more transparent method of assessing genuine housing need, a new definition of affordable so that house prices reflect average local incomes, and a greater focus on sustainable travel.- More floods are coming to Britain, but you ought to know this: the system that should protect us is a scandal, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Sep 18, 2024)
- Regen, organic & agroecology: what’s the difference?, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 17, 2024)
Resources[edit | edit source]
Maps[edit | edit source]
CPRE maps showing that 55 per cent of England's countryside could be at increased risk as a consequence of the Government's reforms of the planning system: Protecting open countryside
Video[edit | edit source]
Other resources[edit | edit source]
- Plunkett Foundation, helps rural communities in the UK to take control of the issues affecting them through community ownership. W The Foundation's work includes:
- Supporting the growing network of community-owned shops across the UK
- Promoting and supporting wider forms of community-owned enterprises and co-operatives in rural communities
- Promoting and supporting community food and farming enterprises
- Advocacy and awareness raising with the purpose of increasing awareness of the potential of community-ownership in rural areas and making it easier for rural communities to take action
- Plunkett Co-operative Pubs Online
- Community Shops Online
- Fiery Spirits, Community of Practice
- Planning Help, a project of the Campaign to Protect Rural England
- One Planet Council, supporting One Planet Developments
- Pub Is The Hub
- Saving Pubs, campaigning resources from CAMRA, Campaign for Real Ale
- Village SOS, support network for community businesses
Campaigns[edit | edit source]
- Buses for every community, takeaction.cpre.org.uk, added 09:36, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
- Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) is a registered charity with over 60,000 members and supporters. CPRE campaigns for a "sustainable future" for the English countryside. They state it is "a vital but undervalued environmental, economic and social asset to the nation." They aim to "highlight threats and promote positive solutions." They campaign using their own research to lobby the public and all levels of government. W
See also[edit | edit source]
- Rural sustainability
- Biodiversity UK
- Food UK
- Localism UK
- Sustainable transport UK
- Urban sustainability UK
- Neighbourhood Planning
- Community resources UK
- Towards a more democratic and climate friendly way of meeting housing need across England
- South East England
- London and South East England
- Commons UK
- local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
External links
- Action with Communities in Rural England (ACRE), charity that acts as the national organisation for thirty-eight Rural Community Councils across England. W
- Common Ground, charity and lobby group that promotes "local distinctiveness" W
- Making sure government policies and programmes benefit rural businesses and communities, policy information from GOV.UK (government)
- Natural England, non-departmental public body of the UK government
- The Rural Challenge, Achieving sustainable rural communities for the 21st century, cpre.org.uk, August 2010
- Rural Shops Alliance
- Village car-share, sister site of liftshare.com
