Land is finite. And yet whether it’s producing food, nature recovery, new homes or tackling climate change, we’re asking more of it than ever before. Data centres are a new pressure on the same finite ...
The first Environmental Delivery Plan could shape the future of nature restoration. Explore the key concerns, risks and ...
The government will publish a revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) later today, after a public consultation earlier in 2026. Prior to publication of the revised NPPF, the government ...
Farmland that could grow 250,000 tonnes of vegetables a year lost to development, CPRE research shows • Two million fewer people can be fed their five a day from vegetables homegrown in England as ...
The government can and should deliver its commitment to source 50% of public sector food locally or to higher environmental standards, while supporting economic growth, food security and protection of ...
The Big Solar Co-op’s approach is simple: rooftops first, then ground-mounted solar done right. This award winning non-profit solar cooperative exists to develop community-owned solar projects that ...
Following a call for evidence, the government announced this week that it will not be taking foward a policy on solar canopies on new car parks. CPRE is disappointed by this decision, which comes ...
Fifty years of community green space. Ask anyone in Frome about Packsaddle Fields and they’ll tell you what the place means to them. Families have walked here for nearly fifty years. The hedgerows are ...
Rising in the Welsh mountains, the River Wye Catchment passes through Herefordshire, before crossing back into Wales at Monmouth, and reaching the sea at Chepstow. It is one of the most iconic water ...
CPRE has responded to the publication of the government’s Land Use Framework, welcoming its ambition while urging stronger safeguards to ensure the countryside is protected as competing demands on ...
A new CPRE report warns that the government’s Land Use Framework, expected on Wednesday, will not solve the fundamental question of what gets built where. The report argues that policy tools to guide ...
CPRE responds to the government’s announcement on the Fingleton Review, welcoming its decision not to adopt the recommendations in full, while warning that protections for nature must not be weakened.