cprelancs
@cprelancs.bsky.social
CPRE, the countryside charity, in Lancashire, Liverpool City Region and Greater Manchester wants a thriving, beautiful countryside for everyone. Green spaces should be accessible to all, rich in nature and playing a crucial role in net zero. Join us.
We love this report. It is indicative that housing lobbyists are being super defensive when the data speaks for itself. All we seek are better outcomes for people, places and nature and it is about time developers were performance checked and that people were better represented in the process.
Yet again CPRE are claiming there's sufficient brownfield land and we don't need to build on any countryside. There are many reasons why this isn't correct 🧵
Almost 1.5m homes could be built on brownfield sites in England, report finds
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
We love this report. It is indicative that housing lobbyists are being super defensive when the data speaks for itself. All we seek are better outcomes for people, places and nature and it is about time developers were performance checked and that people were better represented in the process.
This shows the reality of our dysfunctional housing market.
More action on brownfield could help resolve the housing crisis.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More action on brownfield could help resolve the housing crisis.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Almost 1.5m homes could be built on brownfield sites in England, report finds
Exclusive: CPRE study suggests housebuilding targets can be met without encroaching on green belt land
www.theguardian.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
This shows the reality of our dysfunctional housing market.
More action on brownfield could help resolve the housing crisis.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
More action on brownfield could help resolve the housing crisis.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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🚀 Britain Talks Climate & Nature has landed! Tell a new climate story, based on what 7,000+ people across England, Scotland and Wales really think and feel about climate and nature right now.
👉 Discover the research & toolkit: climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/
🙏 Thanks to @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
👉 Discover the research & toolkit: climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/
🙏 Thanks to @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🚀 Britain Talks Climate & Nature has landed! Tell a new climate story, based on what 7,000+ people across England, Scotland and Wales really think and feel about climate and nature right now.
👉 Discover the research & toolkit: climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/
🙏 Thanks to @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
👉 Discover the research & toolkit: climateoutreach.org/btc/2025/
🙏 Thanks to @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
CPRE has worked with local groups in all of these prettiest villages, apart from Cartmel, which is over the border in Cumbria (controversial we know for some!) Hope you have time to visit over the holidays. Where do you think is prettiest?
www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/la...
www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/la...
10 pretty Lancashire villages that you should visit
It's a tough job to select just ten great villages to visit, but we've given it a go. See if you agree with our choices.
www.greatbritishlife.co.uk
August 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
CPRE has worked with local groups in all of these prettiest villages, apart from Cartmel, which is over the border in Cumbria (controversial we know for some!) Hope you have time to visit over the holidays. Where do you think is prettiest?
www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/la...
www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/la...
We are disappointed to read this, and hope that @LancashireCountyCouncil will not do the same, as climate impacts are the biggest threat to countryside. In this context, scrapping the climate change declaration is just dumb and risks previous investment. Boo!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reform-led Durham county council scraps climate emergency declaration
Durham is thought to be first UK local authority to rescind its statement, in a move condemned as a ‘very dark day’
www.theguardian.com
August 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
We are disappointed to read this, and hope that @LancashireCountyCouncil will not do the same, as climate impacts are the biggest threat to countryside. In this context, scrapping the climate change declaration is just dumb and risks previous investment. Boo!
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Jackie, our Campaigns Lead, spoke to BBC Radio Manchester about the brilliant GM Ringway, a 200-mile walking trail around Greater Manchester, created by @cprelancs.bsky.social and @ramblers.org.uk
It’s the perfect way to enjoy the countryside this summer. Why not lace up your boots and explore? 🌿👣
It’s the perfect way to enjoy the countryside this summer. Why not lace up your boots and explore? 🌿👣
The Joe McGrath Breakfast Show - Joel Mitchell sits in (16/06/2025) - BBC Sounds
A proper breakfast with laughs, music and everything you need to know.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Jackie, our Campaigns Lead, spoke to BBC Radio Manchester about the brilliant GM Ringway, a 200-mile walking trail around Greater Manchester, created by @cprelancs.bsky.social and @ramblers.org.uk
It’s the perfect way to enjoy the countryside this summer. Why not lace up your boots and explore? 🌿👣
It’s the perfect way to enjoy the countryside this summer. Why not lace up your boots and explore? 🌿👣
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We’re delighted to be hosting ‘A roadmap for an adapted UK’ in parliament this evening, spotlighting our new report.
Stay tuned for live updates on speeches from @emmahardymp.bsky.social , @johannbeckford.bsky.social, Edward Morello MP and Baroness Brown of Cambridge.
🧵 #GAevent
Stay tuned for live updates on speeches from @emmahardymp.bsky.social , @johannbeckford.bsky.social, Edward Morello MP and Baroness Brown of Cambridge.
🧵 #GAevent
July 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
We’re delighted to be hosting ‘A roadmap for an adapted UK’ in parliament this evening, spotlighting our new report.
Stay tuned for live updates on speeches from @emmahardymp.bsky.social , @johannbeckford.bsky.social, Edward Morello MP and Baroness Brown of Cambridge.
🧵 #GAevent
Stay tuned for live updates on speeches from @emmahardymp.bsky.social , @johannbeckford.bsky.social, Edward Morello MP and Baroness Brown of Cambridge.
🧵 #GAevent
This looks good - the road to Net Zero is an opportunity to rethink not just how we generate energy, but who owns and controls it. Read the latest report from @coopparty.party.coop & @lcefuk.bsky.social on building consensus for climate action with community energy 👇 party.coop/community/po...
Power in our communities
Read the new report from Co-operative Party and LCEF on building consensus for climate action through community energy.
party.coop
June 4, 2025 at 4:07 PM
This looks good - the road to Net Zero is an opportunity to rethink not just how we generate energy, but who owns and controls it. Read the latest report from @coopparty.party.coop & @lcefuk.bsky.social on building consensus for climate action with community energy 👇 party.coop/community/po...
Last week, Housing Minister Matt Pennycook referred to our State of the Green Belt 2023 report, which in Table 1 shows Green Belt approvals in 2021-22 were almost ten times that in 2009-10. We must focus more effort on brownfield land to resolve housing shortages.
www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/u...
www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/u...
May 6, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Last week, Housing Minister Matt Pennycook referred to our State of the Green Belt 2023 report, which in Table 1 shows Green Belt approvals in 2021-22 were almost ten times that in 2009-10. We must focus more effort on brownfield land to resolve housing shortages.
www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/u...
www.cpre.org.uk/wp-content/u...
Whoop, Whoop! Campaign success! Our polling shows, over 80% of the public support rooftop solar, in fact 89% of Labour voters.
Well done @maxwilkinson.bsky.social for your Sunshine Bill and thank you @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social for listening.
www.cpre.org.uk/news/plans-f...
Well done @maxwilkinson.bsky.social for your Sunshine Bill and thank you @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social for listening.
www.cpre.org.uk/news/plans-f...
Plans for solar panels on all new homes a big campaign win
We are CPRE, the countryside charity. Learn how we're working for a beautiful and thriving countryside that's accessible to everyone - and how to get involved.
www.cpre.org.uk
May 1, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Whoop, Whoop! Campaign success! Our polling shows, over 80% of the public support rooftop solar, in fact 89% of Labour voters.
Well done @maxwilkinson.bsky.social for your Sunshine Bill and thank you @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social for listening.
www.cpre.org.uk/news/plans-f...
Well done @maxwilkinson.bsky.social for your Sunshine Bill and thank you @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social for listening.
www.cpre.org.uk/news/plans-f...
There is concern for nature, and planning reforms don't appear to value it enough. People are going to have less say in development impacting them too. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Planning bill ‘throws environmental protection to the wind’, say UK nature chiefs
Heads of 32 charities warn proposals could push species towards extinction and lead to irreversible habitat loss
www.theguardian.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
There is concern for nature, and planning reforms don't appear to value it enough. People are going to have less say in development impacting them too. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We are super excited about this. People power in strategic spatial planning. This helps the Government do brownfield first and deliver needed homes in Wirral. Tackling an inequality gap too. @cprecountryside.bsky.social @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
Planning Inspectorate confirm Wirral Council's brownfield-only Local Plan www.birkenhead.news/planning-ins...
Planning Inspectorate confirm Wirral Council's brownfield-only Local Plan
Wirral Council is set to make history by adopting the UK's first brownfield-only Local Plan. The Planning Inspectorate has confirmed this landmark decision as sound, underscoring the borough�
www.birkenhead.news
March 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
We are super excited about this. People power in strategic spatial planning. This helps the Government do brownfield first and deliver needed homes in Wirral. Tackling an inequality gap too. @cprecountryside.bsky.social @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
CPRE is an advocate of strategic planning. Let's get the message across. Well done @foeeurope.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fhx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fhx...
Three celebs, no plan... What could possibly go wrong?
YouTube video by Friends of the Earth (England, Wales & Northern Ireland)
www.youtube.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:44 AM
CPRE is an advocate of strategic planning. Let's get the message across. Well done @foeeurope.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fhx...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fhx...
The Planning & Infrastructure Bill is out today. Is it the change we were promised?
My first impression is that reducing opportunities for public engagement at the initial stages of DCOs is poor practice, in fact, anti-planning.
My first impression is that reducing opportunities for public engagement at the initial stages of DCOs is poor practice, in fact, anti-planning.
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March 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The Planning & Infrastructure Bill is out today. Is it the change we were promised?
My first impression is that reducing opportunities for public engagement at the initial stages of DCOs is poor practice, in fact, anti-planning.
My first impression is that reducing opportunities for public engagement at the initial stages of DCOs is poor practice, in fact, anti-planning.
Find out more about Clean Power
Join us this Wednesday for Power Talks - an in-depth discussion on the Govt's energy transition plans between @chrisstark.bsky.social, Head of Mission Control for Clean Power 2030, and our CEO @dharavyas.bsky.social.
📅 12 March 2025 🕒 8.30am 🔗 Register: buff.ly/OUmaB8W
📅 12 March 2025 🕒 8.30am 🔗 Register: buff.ly/OUmaB8W
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Interesting to learn more about challenges farmers face. We support a just transition so farmers are supported to deliver public goods. Access to land, nature recovery, slowing the flow, protecting peatmoss, let alone producing the food we eat.
Our latest report features the stories of 6 farms we visited across England navigating the agricultural transition.
Informed by these visits, we outline the key challenges for farmers and how the government can evolve its agricultural policy to support them through the transition
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Informed by these visits, we outline the key challenges for farmers and how the government can evolve its agricultural policy to support them through the transition
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Farming at a crossroads: how farmers are navigating the agricultural transition
In this report, we detail recommendations to evolve UK agricultural policy based on insights from visiting six farms across England, each actively navigating the agricultural transition.
buff.ly
February 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Interesting to learn more about challenges farmers face. We support a just transition so farmers are supported to deliver public goods. Access to land, nature recovery, slowing the flow, protecting peatmoss, let alone producing the food we eat.
Clive Lewis MP, Rachel Maskell MP and other Labour MPs giving considered and passionate responses to why growth and new development must be green. Please take note in the Cabinet. @labourlewis.bsky.social @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
January 24, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Clive Lewis MP, Rachel Maskell MP and other Labour MPs giving considered and passionate responses to why growth and new development must be green. Please take note in the Cabinet. @labourlewis.bsky.social @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
Thanks for sharing the pearls of wisdom from these considered, well-respected, peer reviewed, scientists! Link it to the CAN Bill reading today and the reasons we all must take note and act. Report it! @lancashirepost.bsky.social @manchestereveningnews.co.uk @liverpoolecho.co.uk t.co/7uQZMHwWam
https://youtu.be/2Jq23mSDh9U?si=lye4R0y2cAoEeAX-
t.co
January 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Thanks for sharing the pearls of wisdom from these considered, well-respected, peer reviewed, scientists! Link it to the CAN Bill reading today and the reasons we all must take note and act. Report it! @lancashirepost.bsky.social @manchestereveningnews.co.uk @liverpoolecho.co.uk t.co/7uQZMHwWam
Hooray for Roz Savage MP ! What a fantastic speech for the Climate and Nature Bill. Encourage those out there to watch it. Really good. Depressing labour is banging on about build, build, build with such disregard for green issues. @lancstelegraph.bsky.social parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
Parliamentlive.tv
House of Commons
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January 24, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Hooray for Roz Savage MP ! What a fantastic speech for the Climate and Nature Bill. Encourage those out there to watch it. Really good. Depressing labour is banging on about build, build, build with such disregard for green issues. @lancstelegraph.bsky.social parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
Labour appears at odds with necessary actions for 'sustainable' development. Growth must be 'green' for all of us in the future to prosper. @lancstelegraph.bsky.social @forestofbowlandnl.bsky.social @northlancsgreens.bsky.social @nwcasc.bsky.social
t.co/zZcO6YiT5U
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/23/labour-mps-ordered-to-sink-landmark-climate-and-environment-bill?CMP=share_btn_url
t.co
January 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Labour appears at odds with necessary actions for 'sustainable' development. Growth must be 'green' for all of us in the future to prosper. @lancstelegraph.bsky.social @forestofbowlandnl.bsky.social @northlancsgreens.bsky.social @nwcasc.bsky.social
t.co/zZcO6YiT5U
t.co/zZcO6YiT5U
🌞🌞The Sunshine Bill is set to be voted on in parliament on 17th January.🌞🌞
📩Email your MP today to make sure they back rooftop solar
More than 10,000 of our supporters have!
takeaction.cpre.org.uk/page/162463/....
📩Email your MP today to make sure they back rooftop solar
More than 10,000 of our supporters have!
takeaction.cpre.org.uk/page/162463/....
URGENT: Ask your MP to support rooftop solar in parliament
I’ve asked my MP to vote in favour of rooftop solar in parliament on Friday 17 January. Will you do the same?
takeaction.cpre.org.uk
January 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
🌞🌞The Sunshine Bill is set to be voted on in parliament on 17th January.🌞🌞
📩Email your MP today to make sure they back rooftop solar
More than 10,000 of our supporters have!
takeaction.cpre.org.uk/page/162463/....
📩Email your MP today to make sure they back rooftop solar
More than 10,000 of our supporters have!
takeaction.cpre.org.uk/page/162463/....
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Delighted to be at Malham Youth Hostel today for the unveiling of a plaque to John Dower, architect of the 1949 National Parks Act (and who designed the YH!). @yorkshiredalesnp.bsky.social @campaign4parks.bsky.social @campaignerkate.bsky.social @roseoneill.bsky.social @ramblersgb.bsky.social
November 18, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Delighted to be at Malham Youth Hostel today for the unveiling of a plaque to John Dower, architect of the 1949 National Parks Act (and who designed the YH!). @yorkshiredalesnp.bsky.social @campaign4parks.bsky.social @campaignerkate.bsky.social @roseoneill.bsky.social @ramblersgb.bsky.social
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Do the government's housebuilding plans mean "nibbling away at the green belt"?
@cathynewman.bsky.social speaks to the CPRE and the Home Builders Federation.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/debate-...
@cathynewman.bsky.social speaks to the CPRE and the Home Builders Federation.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/debate-...
Debate: More housebuilding or protect the green belt?
We spoke to Lizzie Bundred Woodward, a planning policy manager at the Campaign to Protect Rural England; and Sam Stafford, who's Planning Director of the Home Builders Federation.
www.channel4.com
December 13, 2024 at 6:23 PM
Do the government's housebuilding plans mean "nibbling away at the green belt"?
@cathynewman.bsky.social speaks to the CPRE and the Home Builders Federation.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/debate-...
@cathynewman.bsky.social speaks to the CPRE and the Home Builders Federation.
Read and watch:
www.channel4.com/news/debate-...