News
After 25 years, Bertram is moving on to pastures new – thank you from all at CPRE Essex
Wednesday 17 August 2022
We are sad to report that after 25 years of sterling service to CPRE Essex Bertram Rope has decided to retire. Living close to Colchester, Bertram had to deal with many issues over the years but in particular the massive increases in the numbers of houses being proposed or built in what has become one […] Read more >
Design in Uttlesford: you can have your say!
Tuesday 9 August 2022
Would you like to help shape new design code for Uttlesford? Uttlesford District Council has been successful in its funding bid to produce a district-wide design code. It will be produced over the next few months and be a planning document used by local people, planning officers and developers in the preparation and assessment of […] Read more >
Take part in the CPRE Essex photographic competition to show the beauty of the Essex Way
Thursday 28 July 2022
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Essex Way, CPRE Essex is launching a photographic competition – and everyone is invited to join. Our organisation played a leading role in bringing about this beautiful 81-mile walk from Epping to Harwich and we can think of no better way of acclaiming its joys than sharing pictures […] Read more >
The big beast that does things very much its own way…
Thursday 28 July 2022
Much though we all love country life, it does have its moments… Normally chilled photographer Gordon Ridgewell reports: “I can’t even sit in the garden tonight, with the big beast making loads of noise and everything covered with dust.” Read more >
William Smith, basket maker
Thursday 28 July 2022
We have gone too long without the beautiful writing of Anne Boileau, so here’s a delightful piece to lighten our summer spirits… Delving into Trevor Disley’s fascinating book of old photographs of Coggeshall, I discover William Smith, basket maker, who supplied our town with all manner of baskets from his workshop in West Street. Before […] Read more >
Farmland that could grow 250,000 tonnes of vegetables a year lost to development, CPRE research shows
Wednesday 20 July 2022
Two million fewer people can be fed their five a day from vegetables homegrown in England as prime farmland lost to development Food security concerns increase, with 60 per cent of England’s finest agricultural land at the highest risk of flooding from climate change Almost 300,000 homes have been built on prime farmland – with […] Read more >
Crispin Truman to step down as CPRE chief executive in autumn
Wednesday 20 July 2022
It has been announced that Crispin Truman will be stepping down as CEO of CPRE, the countryside charity, at the end of September. In his five years leading CPRE, Mr Truman has done much to change the charity’s position to become a positive voice for the countryside, extended its political network and overseen a series […] Read more >
Keep this fight going: the message is clear at Lower Thames Crossing walk
Monday 18 July 2022
“This is not a done deal – the Lower Thames Crossing is hanging by a thread.” Becca from Transport Action Network had travelled from Hampshire to join a range of campaigners for last week’s Woodland Trust walk at Shorne Woods Country Park and Ashenbank Wood near Gravesend. Both sites (they comprise part of the same […] Read more >
CPRE Essex responds to National Grid pylons consultation
Tuesday 12 July 2022
CPRE Essex has given a strong response to the National Grid consultation on the East Anglia GREEN scheme, which will entail a new line of pylons running from Norwich to Tilbury. The response, submitted by Tricia Moxey, CPRE Essex vice-president, reads: “CPRE Essex is deeply concerned by National Grid’s East Anglia Green Energy Enablement (GREEN) […] Read more >
Inspector dismisses appeal by Next in its bid to build distribution centre
Tuesday 12 July 2022
You might or might not be enjoying the summer heat, but something that should cheer us all is Next’s failure to overturn refusal of planning permission for a proposed distribution centre at Waltham Abbey. The retailer had appealed against Epping Forest District Council’s verdict against its plans for a five-hectare warehouse, multi-storey car park and […] Read more >