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Essex minerals plan: your chance to join consultation

Essex minerals plan: your chance to join consultation

Sunday 25 February 2024

Would you like to give your views on the next Essex minerals plan? The county council is consulting on the Minerals Local Plan (MLP) Review, which includes 52 new sites for consideration. They are scattered across the county and CPRE Essex will be submitting a response. There are several aspects to consider. For example, Tricia […] Read more >

Petition: Save the Clatterbury Oak and give ancient trees full legal protection

Petition: Save the Clatterbury Oak and give ancient trees full legal protection

Sunday 25 February 2024

A petition has been launched in a bid to save an ancient Essex tree under threat of felling. Looking to build an access road as part of their proposals to put up five new houses, developers have applied for planning permission to remove the Clatterbury Oak, which campaigners in the village of Clavering believe could […] Read more >

Lower Thames Crossing: learn more at drop-in events

Lower Thames Crossing: learn more at drop-in events

Friday 23 February 2024

It is a little over two months since the examination hearings for the Lower Thames Crossing were concluded. CPRE Essex has taken an active role in the lengthy planning process – reportedly the longest in this country on record – and maintains its view that the adverse environmental and financial impacts of the proposed scheme […] Read more >

Spring talk will highlight the important role of Local Nature Partnerships

Spring talk will highlight the important role of Local Nature Partnerships

Wednesday 7 February 2024

You might not have heard of them, but Local Nature Partnerships are a big deal. Emerging from the government’s Natural Environment White Paper 2011, ‘The Natural Choice: securing the value of nature’, they aim to bring together local organisations, businesses and people who want to improve their natural environment. And you can learn about them […] Read more >

Have you seen our newspaper advert seeking CPRE Essex volunteers?

Have you seen our newspaper advert seeking CPRE Essex volunteers?

Tuesday 30 January 2024

We are now into the second week of CPRE Essex’s advertising campaign to recruit volunteers for our charity. We have run adverts in the Braintree & Witham Times, Epping Forest Guardian and Your Local Guardian newspapers in the two editions dated January 18 and January 25. Media company Newsquest has also been carrying our advert […] Read more >

Covid can’t keep a good photographer down

Covid can’t keep a good photographer down

Tuesday 30 January 2024

You might have missed photographer Gordon Ridgewell’s delightful images over recent weeks and wondered where he’d got to. Wonder no more – the mystery has been solved… He tells us: “I am back to normal after the dreaded Covid pulled me down over the Christmas period. “The other day I went down to [wife] Megan’s […] Read more >

A12 widening wins government consent

A12 widening wins government consent

Tuesday 30 January 2024

The A12 is to be widened to three lanes between Hatfield Peverel and Marks Tey. Huw Merriman, Minister of State for Transport, has granted a Development Consent Order (DCO) for the widening between junctions 20a and 25. His decision and reasons were announced this month (Friday, January 12) in a 78-page letter. CPRE Essex was […] Read more >

Watch out for our adverts seeking new volunteers in newspapers and on Facebook

Watch out for our adverts seeking new volunteers in newspapers and on Facebook

Thursday 11 January 2024

CPRE Essex is constantly looking for volunteers to help in the bid to protect and enhance our county’s beautiful countryside – and as part of this we are launching a recruitment campaign across local media. We are running adverts in the Braintree & Witham Times, Epping Forest Guardian and Your Local Guardian newspapers in the […] Read more >

Former CPRE Essex vice-president Robert awarded British Empire Medal

Former CPRE Essex vice-president Robert awarded British Empire Medal

Monday 8 January 2024

Many of the good folk of Essex will be returning to work today (Monday, January 8), so what better time to announce some wonderful and uplifting news? It was announced in this year’s New Year Honours List that ardent Essex conservationist Robert Erith TD DL had been awarded a British Empire Medal for services to […] Read more >

Lower Thames Crossing: examination hearings close

Lower Thames Crossing: examination hearings close

Friday 29 December 2023

The examination hearings for the Lower Thames Crossing ended on Wednesday, December 20, CPRE Essex having taken an active role at the issue-specific hearings, along with responding to the various written questions. It is CPRE Essex’s overarching view that the adverse environmental and financial impacts of the proposed project outweigh any of its purported benefits. […] Read more >

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