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Please sign our petition to government: don’t deregulate planning
Thursday 24 September 2020
The government has devised some new plans that could pose a huge risk to the countryside and the communities living and working within it. Ministers want to take decision-making powers away from communities and local councils, handing it over to housing developers and central powers in Westminster. Under these new proposals, our ability to shape […] Read more >
CPRE slates government’s proposals for planning deregulation
Tuesday 14 July 2020
The government’s proposed planning reforms could amount to “the exact opposite of building back better”, CPRE believes. Downing Street says its proposals are “the most radical reforms to our planning system since the Second World War”. Amended planning rules, due to be in place by September, would permit: Developers to “demolish and rebuild” vacant and […] Read more >
‘The PM’s “new deal” makes a mockery of the government’s so-called green recovery’
Wednesday 1 July 2020
CPRE, the countryside charity, has given a decidedly cool response to the prime minister’s post-coronavirus recovery plan in which he promised to “build, build, build”. Boris Johnson’s announcement of a ‘new deal’, delivered in Dudley yesterday (Tuesday, June 30), pledged £5 billion to build homes and infrastructure and vowed to speed up and intensify plans […] Read more >
How coronavirus is hitting rural life: letter goes to government
Thursday 26 March 2020
The specific impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on rural communities have been highlighted in a letter to government. Addressed to George Eustice, Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the letter is signed by the chairs of ACRE (Action with Communities in Rural England), Plunkett Foundation, Rural Services Network and the Rural Coalition, […] Read more >