Rural sustainability UK: Difference between revisions

This article focuses on information specific to United Kingdom. Please see our Rural sustainability page for a topic overview.

Campaigns

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

Resources

• 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
• Plunkett Co-operative Pubs Online
• Plunkett Foundation, helps rural communities in the UK to take control of the issues affecting them through community ownership. ^W
• Pub Is The Hub
• Saving Pubs, campaigning resources from CAMRA, Campaign for Real Ale
• Village SOS, support network for community businesses

Maps

CPRE maps

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

News and comment

2020

Jan 21 Understanding the need for new housing across England: New UK housing 'dominated by roads' ^[1] "... too many highways engineers are still approving roads that do not fully account for pedestrians and cyclists." Prof Matthew Carmona, University College London. Government poll suggests 76% of people think that for the sake of the environment, everyone should reduce their driving.

2018

The future of environmental planning, Tom Kenny, Dec 10 ^[2]

Our Common Ground: some reflections on the RSA’s latest report, Nov 7 ^[3]

Oxfordshire: This disastrous new project will change the face of Britain, yet no debate is allowed, George Monbiot, Aug 22 ^[4]

If we value rural Britain, we can’t build houses all over it, Simon Jenkins, Aug 6 ^[5]

2017

Kent: Farthingloe Valley saved as CPRE Kent wins battle in Supreme Court, Dec 6 ^[6]

Towards sustainable economies UK: How to Set Up a Community Co-op, May 17 ^[7]

Green campaigners call for land ministry to halt the ‘erosion of the countryside’, Mar 5 ^[8]

2016

New £3.62 million support programme announced to help communities take control of their local pub, Mar 9 ^[9]

2015

From fringe to fork – food and the Green Belt, Sep 29 ^[10]

News sources

Latest news releases, Campaign to Protect Rural England

See also

• Rural sustainability
• local information can be found, or shared, via our many UK location pages
• Biodiversity UK
• Food UK
• Localism UK
• Sustainable transport UK
• Urban sustainability UK
• Community resources UK
• Understanding the need for new housing across England
• South East England
• London and South East England
• Commons UK

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

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