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 ...

CPRE Devon and Devon Data Centre and BESS Action Group are campaigning against a data centre project, raising concerns about its impact on farmland, landscapes, wildlife and local communities. In the ...

Five decades shaping how Britain plans, farms and protects its countryside. 'He is nothing short of passionate in his advocacy for a better countryside — a great communicator with ministers, farmers, ...

I have been reading Matthew Kelly’s ‘Protecting the Countryside – The First Century of CPRE‘. It’s a vast job to try to compress 100 years of CPRE into one accessible book. The focus on CPRE’s policy ...

The first Environmental Delivery Plan could shape the future of nature restoration. Explore the key concerns, risks and ...

In the race to build capacity for AI, England is seeing a huge increase in applications for large-scale data centres. But there’s no plan to guide where they go, or how they’re built and run, meaning ...

CPRE has warned that the Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith’s proposed changes to housing and environmental policy could put important protections for the countryside at risk. While we agree that new ...

CPRE was founded in 1926 by people who cared deeply about the countryside and wanted to see it thrive. A hundred years on, we wanted to mark our centenary by going back to that feeling. Love Your ...