Campaigns
CPRE’s current campaigns include:
- Influencing development plans at local, regional and national level.
- Reducing “clutter” in the form of unnecessary road signs and advertising billboards in the countryside and seeking ways to protect quiet rural roads
- Creating a tool to map tranquillity in the countryside and finding ways for this to be used by local and regional planners
- Protecting hedgerows
- Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and fighting for farmers to be recognised for the work they do in protecting the character of the countryside
- Lobbying for more affordable housing to be built in rural areas
- Lobbying planners to ensure that as many new developments as possible are built on Brownfield (rather than Greenfield) land. In particular it is fighting for the protection of green belts.
- Reducing litter in rural areas across England via local action and events and lobbying government
- Supporting campaigns against 'surface' or opencast mining.
Read more about this topic: Campaign To Protect Rural England
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