Campaign to Protect Rural England

Campaign to Protect Rural England We’re Campaign to Protect Rural England. We shape and promote solutions for the sustainable use of land to protect and regenerate the countryside.

Around 40% of Britain's food is imported, including 80% of fruit and 47% of vegetables, making the UK more vulnerable to...
19/08/2026

Around 40% of Britain's food is imported, including 80% of fruit and 47% of vegetables, making the UK more vulnerable to food price shocks than much of Europe. Many of our suppliers are under growing climate pressure: 90% of the top 20 countries supplying the UK's healthy staples are rated as moderately to severely vulnerable to climate breakdown, threatening future yields and exports.

Much of this risk is avoidable. Apples, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and pears, five of the UK's nine most-purchased fruits, all grow well here, yet we produce less than 40% of what we consume for four of them.

To help fill this gap, we need to back Britsh farmers on food procurement. The government should deliver on its pledge and source 50% of public sector food locally. It could add £1 billion a year to British farming and create a more sustainable and resilient food system.

👉 https://bit.ly/4gn1OiX

📣The updated National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) was published today. The NPPF is effectively England's rulebook f...
17/08/2026

📣The updated National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) was published today.

The NPPF is effectively England's rulebook for planning, and so it's an important tool in guiding decisions about what gets built where.

There's a lot of detail to digest, but among our bigger concerns is around the fact that this revised framework appears to centralise even more planning decisions — despite Andy Burnham promising a significant rebalancing of power from central government to local areas.

Building new homes near existing transport can be great for people and planet. But a blanket 'yes' to any development near any train station — with only vague prospects of extra trains or other infrastructure — could create problems rather than solve them.

And the countryside shouldn't be sacrificed for data centres to fuel Silicon Valley's race for profits and dominance. The environmental impact of these huge developments must be considered.

We want to see devolution done well — genuine powers for local leaders in local communities to determine housing and infrastructure needs in their area.

🌿 Our On the Edge garden has found its permanent home at Sheffield's iconic Park Hill!The multi-award-winning garden cel...
17/08/2026

🌿 Our On the Edge garden has found its permanent home at Sheffield's iconic Park Hill!

The multi-award-winning garden celebrates the importance of nature on the edge of our towns and cities.

The garden's centrepiece is a giant Mother Nature guardian figure, crafted from fallen trees, Derbyshire stone and willow. Her dry-stone wall 'body' winds through the space, creating a place for community gathering and quiet reflection - surrounded by wildflowers, with trees and climbing roses to follow this autumn.

A huge thank you to the incredible artisans and designers behind this garden: garden designer Sarah Eberle, stone wallers Lydia and Cuthbert Noble, willow sculptor Tom Hare, woodcarver Chris Wood, and landscapers The Outdoor Room and Peak Landscapes. 💚

📍 Visit On the Edge at Park Hill, Sheffield

For more - https://bit.ly/4hxxvIs

Mayor of Greater Manchester Bev Craig has announced 50,000 council, social and genuinely affordable homes by 2039, with ...
15/08/2026

Mayor of Greater Manchester Bev Craig has announced 50,000 council, social and genuinely affordable homes by 2039, with 10,000 of these built or in the pipeline by May 2028.

Central to the plan is a focus on brownfield land — transforming disused and neglected sites across the city region into affordable housing. By unlocking brownfield sites for genuinely affordable homes, the plan aims to make the most of land already within the city region, rather than encroaching on green space.

This is great news for Greater Manchester and a welcome example of a housing plan that responds to community needs with more social and affordable homes, and reusing suitable brownfield sites.

It's the kind of plan we’ve been calling for, and one we'd like to see replicated across the country.

👉 https://bit.ly/4xDqpqq

For too long, many people have felt that those shaping national policy have not listened to their experiences or perspec...
14/08/2026

For too long, many people have felt that those shaping national policy have not listened to their experiences or perspectives. It's time to change that.

We are supporting the National Conversation — a major UK-wide listening exercise asking people about their experiences of community life, run for the Independent Commission on Community and Cohesion, co-chaired by Sir Sajid Javid and Jon Cruddas.

The survey takes just a few minutes and is open until 31 August. Add your voice to the conversation. http://www.national-conversation.ox.ac.uk/en/cpre

Join us for Love Your Countryside 💚This September, we're celebrating the ordinary countryside all around us - the fields...
13/08/2026

Join us for Love Your Countryside 💚

This September, we're celebrating the ordinary countryside all around us - the fields, footpaths and hidden corners we often walk straight past.

Sign up to discover local walks, secret spots, and a fresh way of looking at the world on your doorstep.

👉 https://bit.ly/4h6n0f6

53% of England's darkest skies are found in National Parks and National Landscapes. Outside these protected areas, light...
10/08/2026

53% of England's darkest skies are found in National Parks and National Landscapes.

Outside these protected areas, light pollution has spread steadily for decades, driven by increasing development across the countryside.

National Parks and National Landscapes have become some of the last places in the UK where you can see meteor showers and the Milky Way with the naked eye.

We're calling on the Government to strengthen protections for our darkest skies, before it's too late.

👉 https://bit.ly/4wMGtX3

09/08/2026

For over a decade, the Valued Landscape policy has helped protect places that matter to local communities. Soon, those protections could be removed from the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).

If they are, hundreds of valued landscapes across England could be at risk, even though enough previously developed land exists to accommodate 1.4 million homes.

We visited Windmill Hill, on the edges of Alton, an area loved by the local community that faces the prospect of being surrounded by hundreds of homes, losing cherished footpaths, public access, and the character of the landscape, without delivering the affordable housing local people need.

We want the Government to restore protections for valued landscapes and give local communities a real say over the future of the countryside near them.

08/08/2026

Our On the Edge garden is officially in its new home at Park Hill in Sheffield 💚!

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