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The times we live in #1 by Tim Dennell

The hidden rural housing crisis continues to worsen along with its tragic impacts on people and families. This includes rates of rough sleeping, which new CPRE analysis has revealed are…

CPRE has joined 35 other leading national governing bodies and environmental organisations to support the “Outdoors for All” a manifesto, launched on 13^th December, which seeks to extend responsible access to more green and blue spaces.

The Outdoors For All coalition calls for new legislation to open up more of our countryside, including waterways, woodland, riversides and downland…

Honey Hill by Andy Field

In November we wrote to the Planning Inspectorate outlining our objections to Anglian Water’s proposal to relocate the Cambridge WWTP from Milton to Honey Hill, which is in the Cambridge Green Belt. We’ve previously responded to Anglian…

We were disappointed to learn that the Public Inquiry has overturned the decision made by Cambridge City Council to refuse the planning application made by Queen’s College, Cambridge to develop Owlstone Croft. The appeal decision can be read here.

We…

New housing by Hugh Venables

The report, entitled ‘Unraveling a crisis: the state of rural affordable housing in England’, launched on 28^th November and lays bare the impact of this crisis on real people, along with what is needed to fix…