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‘The route is a splendid testament to those pioneers at the CPRE who, fifty years ago, put their ambitious ideas into action’
Thursday 7 July 2022
Back in the autumn of 2013, CPRE Essex published in its magazine, Action Essex, Peter Ward’s account of how he tackled the 81 miles of the Essex Way. We reproduce the first part of that tale here. Please forgive its presentation as a series of scans (we hope to improve on them in due course), […] Read more >
Essex Way anniversary walkers set out from Epping on Saturday
Monday 27 June 2022
The Essex Way 50th-anniversary celebrations continue with a walking relay this weekend. By happy coincidence, 2022 also marks the 50th anniversary of the Long Distance Walkers Association and it has organised the five-leg relay, which starts with a group setting out from Epping station at 6am on Saturday (July 2). They will be carrying a […] Read more >
Gordon snaps a quirky moment… now it’s YOUR chance to whip out the camera and join our competition
Friday 24 June 2022
We offer you Gordon Ridgewell’s latest quirky observation on life… “I have heard about the cat amongst the pigeons, but when I looked out the window I saw our cat amongst the partridges! “He is guarding the drive as the partridges find small seeds to eat in strange places.” As most of you will be […] Read more >
Last call on LTC consultation: it ends today
Monday 20 June 2022
Today’s the day! The Local Refinement Consultation on the proposed Lower Thames Crossing concludes at 11.59pm tonight (Monday, June 20). It is of course very much last call, and the matter is complex, so if you would like a helping hand you can see can Thames Crossing Action Group’s step-by-step guide to the consultation here […] Read more >
The latest (and perhaps final) LTC consultation has less than a week to run – here’s a step-by-step guide
Tuesday 14 June 2022
Time is running short if you’re planning on taking part in what might be the final consultation on the proposed Lower Thames Crossing. The Local Refinement Consultation set up by National Highways concludes at 11.59pm on Monday, June 20. We highly recommend submitting your views as the more responses received by NH the better. Our […] Read more >
East Anglia GREEN pylons: ‘connection should be via undersea cables’
Friday 10 June 2022
CPRE Essex will be liaising with its East Anglian partner groups the Suffolk Preservation Society and CPRE Norfolk as it prepares a response to plans for a line of pylons more than 160 feet high. If built, the so-called East Anglia GREEN scheme will entail the pylons running some 112 miles from Norwich to Tilbury […] Read more >
Lower Thames Crossing consultation: read the response from our colleagues across the river
Monday 6 June 2022
We reported here that what is likely to be the final consultation on the Lower Thames Crossing ends on Monday, June 20. Our friends on the Gravesham committee of CPRE Kent have been working on their response to the consultation and you can read that here – it might help you with your own. Read more >
A right royal memory…
Wednesday 1 June 2022
As our glorious county is whipped into a state of patriotic fervour for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, our own elder statesman, photographer Gordon Ridgewell, has reason of his own to reflect. He tells us: “Sixty-nine years ago, I had just completed my RAF training and was picked to go on parade at Trowbridge in Wiltshire […] Read more >
Body blow for Middlewick campaigners as Colchester Local Plan found sound
Monday 30 May 2022
Some 1,000 houses could be built at Middlewick Ranges after planning inspectors found Colchester Borough Council’s emerging Local Plan ‘sound’. Campaigners have battled hard to save “the green lungs of Colchester, but the Planning Inspectorate’s conclusion on the Plan, which allocates the 215-acre site for some 1,000 properties, community activities and open space, comes as […] Read more >
Green Belt: the countryside next door to 30 million people needs investment to level up access to nature, says CPRE
Friday 27 May 2022
The Green Belt is missing out on government funding for the restoration of nature and cultural heritage despite it being the countryside next door to 30 million people – or more than half of England’s population. Valued spaces such as the parkland setting of Bentley Priory – the headquarters of the RAF during the Battle […] Read more >