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The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE, formerly Council for the Preservation of Rural England ) is a registered charity with over 60,000 members and supporters. Formed in 1926, it is one of the longest running and most respected environmental groups. It has influenced public policy relating to town and country planning in England, most notably in the formation of the National Parks and AONBs in 1949, and of Green Belts in 1955.[1] Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: Multiple unofficial anthems Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Government Constitutional monarchy - Queen Queen Elizabeth II - Prime Minister Tony Blair MP Unification - by Athelstan AD 927 Area - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK) 50,346 sq...
This article is about national parks. ...
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is a United Kingdom. ...
In city planning, the Green Belt is a concept for controlling metropolitan growth introduced around London, England by minister of housing Duncan Sandys via a Government Circular. ...
It can claim some credit for the slow shift of agricultural policies across Europe away from a price-support philosophy to one of environmental stewardship, a policy shift begun in England[citation needed].
Campaigns against noise and light pollution have been pursued over recent years, and and it is now focusing on Tranquillity as a key aspect of the countryside which CPRE wants to see protected in England’s planning policies. Noise pollution is unwanted human-created sound that disrupts the environment. ...
This photo of New York City shows excessive sky glow, one form of light pollution, partly caused by many unshielded lights. ...
Despite their well informed stance on many complex issues, some of their critics characterise them as proponents of a "drawbridge mentality" (i.e. "I've moved to the countryside but I don't want others to do likewise"), motivated by nostalgia, or as NIMBYs. This criticism has probably come about because the branch and district groups often oppose developments in their local area and the national organisation resists major increases in built development in the countryside. NIMBY (an initialism for Not In My Back Yard) is a pejorative acronym for the phenomenon in which residents oppose a development as being inappropriate for their local area. ...
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CPRE’s national office is in Southwark, London. It also has offices in the eight other regions of England. The Borough or Southwark is an area of the London Borough of Southwark situated 1. ...
The region, also known as Government Office Region, is currently the highest tier of local government subnational entity of England in the United Kingdom. ...
In addition there are CPRE branches in each of England’s counties and groups in over 200 districts. All but two of the 43 CPRE branches are independent charities of their own. CPRE Durham and CPRE Northumberland are subsidiaries of national CPRE. The traditional counties as usually portrayed. ...
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Campaigns CPRE’s current campaigns include: - Influencing development plans at local, regional and national level.
- Reducing “clutter” in the form of unnecessary road signs and billboards in the countryside and seeking ways to protect quiet rural roads
- Creating a tool to map tranquillity in the countryside and finding ways for this to be used by local and regional planners
- Protecting hedgerows
- Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and fighting for farmers to be recognised for the work they do in protecting the character of the countryside
- Lobbying for more affordable housing to be built in rural areas
- Lobbying planners to ensure that as many new developments as possible are built on Brownfield (rather than Greenfield) land. In particular it is fighting for the protection of Green Belts.
[edit] A Local Development Framework is the spatial planning strategy introduced in England and Wales by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and given detail in Planning Policy Statements 12. ...
Regional Spatial Strategies (RSS) provide a regional level planning framework for the regions of England. ...
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a system of European Union agricultural subsidies which represents about 44% of the EUs budget (€43 billion scheduled spend for 2005 [1]). These subsidies work by guaranteeing a minimum price to producers and by direct payment of a subsidy for crops planted. ...
In town planning, brownfield land is an area of land previously used or built upon, as opposed to industry or mining and therefore may be contaminated by hazardous waste or pollution. ...
Greenfield land is a term used to describe a piece of undeveloped land, either currently used for agriculture or just left to nature. ...
In city planning, the Green Belt is a concept for controlling metropolitan growth introduced around London, England by minister of housing Duncan Sandys via a Government Circular. ...
History CPRE was formed following the publication of “The Preservation of Rural England” by Sir Patrick Abercrombie in 1926. Sir Patrick became its Honorary Secretary. Its first campaign was against the spread of ribbon developments which it saw as carving up the countryside. It also began arguing the case for protecting areas of England’s most beautiful countryside, and for setting up Green Belts to preserve the character of towns and give town dwellers easy access to the countryside. Categories: People stubs | 1879 births | 1957 deaths | British architects ...
Ribbon development means building houses along the roads radiating from a town. ...
In city planning, the Green Belt is a concept for controlling metropolitan growth introduced around London, England by minister of housing Duncan Sandys via a Government Circular. ...
Its campaigning helped lead to the Town and Country Planning Act 1947 and the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act 1949. This article is about national parks. ...
When England’s first motorway the M1 was proposed in 1957 CPRE successfully campaigned for it to avoid the heart of Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire (the road was put into a cutting). Similarly when the M4 was built in 1963 CPRE successfully fought to protect the Berkshire Downs. It also began at this time to seek for tighter control on advertising hoardings along roadsides. M1 can mean the following: M1 Garand, a US battle rifle circa WWII. M1 Carbine, a US carbine circa WWII. M1 Abrams, a US Main Battle Tank. ...
Charnwood Forest is an upland tract in north-western Leicestershire, England. ...
The term M4 has several meanings: The M4 macro processing language. ...
The North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) is located in the English counties of Berkshire, Hampshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire. ...
In 1985 in a campaign to reform the EC’s Agricultural Structures Directive, CPRE stopped funding for many damaging agricultural activities and secured the first “green” farm payments. In 1988 it helped persuade the Chancellor of the Exchequer to scrap tax incentives favouring blanket conifer plantations in scenic areas.
In 1990 the Government’s first ever Environment White Paper accepted the case for hedgerow protection, 20 years after CPRE’s campaign was first launched, and in 1997 laws to protect hedgerows finally came into force. A white paper is an authoritative report; a government report outlining policy; or a document whose purpose is to educate industry customers or collect leads for a company. ...
In 1995 CPRE published “tranquillity” maps which show the diminishing areas of the countryside not disturbed by man-made noise, visual intrusion or light pollution. These were updated using a pioneering new methodology in 2006. CPRE also published similar maps focusing solely on light pollution in 2003. Noise pollution is unwanted human-created sound that disrupts the environment. ...
This photo of New York City shows excessive sky glow, one form of light pollution, partly caused by many unshielded lights. ...
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CPRE people - Patron: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
- President: Sir Max Hastings
- Chairman: Sir Nigel Thompson
- Chief Executive: Shaun Spiers
Other CPRE people Elizabeth II in an official portrait as Queen of Canada (on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee in 2002, wearing the Sovereigns badges of the Order of Canada and the Order of Military Merit) Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary) (born 21 April 1926), styled HM The...
Sir Max Hastings is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. ...
[edit] Arthur Neville Chamberlain (18 March 1869 – 9 November 1940) was a Conservative British politician and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 to 1940. ...
David Puttnam receiving his BAFTA Fellowship, 19 February 2006 David Terence Puttnam, Baron Puttnam of Queensgate, CBE is a film producer and politician. ...
Jonathan Dimbleby, born 31 July 1944, is a commentator and presenter of current affairs and political radio and television programmes. ...
Prunella Scales CBE (born June 22, 1932) is an English actor best known for her role as Sybil Fawlty in the British sitcom Fawlty Towers. ...
Sir Edward Elgar Sir Edward Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English Romantic composer. ...
Reference - ^ Making our mark - 80 years of campaigning for the countryside by Tristram Hunt
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You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations. [edit] Tristram Hunt (born 1974), is a British historian, broadcaster and newspaper columnist. ...
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