Autumn statement a road plan for disaster
Following the autumn statement by the Chancellor George Osborne, Ralph Smyth, Senior Transport campaigner at the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), says:
“These new plans to build old road schemes have clearly been picked off a dusty shelf without time for much thinking. A return to building new roads in [...]
In an open letter to Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg Shaun Spiers reminded the Lib Dem leader of a speech in which he said: “Fixing the economy must never come at the expense of protecting the environment. The two must go hand in hand.”
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In an exchange in today’s (Wednesday) Prime Minister’s Questions, David Cameron agreed to meet with CPRE and other groups concerned about the Government’s planning reform agenda.
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Environment secretary Caroline Spelman MP has made public the latest England Biodiversity Strategy, but its welcome ambitions are threatened by the Government’s agenda for planning reform.
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Planning minister Bob Neill has today (Sunday 7/8) described opposition to the Government’s proposed planning reforms by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the National Trust as ‘a carefully choreographed smear campaign by Left-wingers based within the national headquarters of pressure groups’.
CPRE believe the minster is in denial about the scale and seriousness [...]
The Government has published a highly sensitive draft National Planning Policy Framework for public consultation. It represents the biggest shake-up of planning for over 50 years and CPRE believes it will place the countryside under increasing threat as the economy recovers.
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In June 2011 CPRE submitted comments on the Government’s proposed Draft National Planning Policy Framework.
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We are grateful to Francoise and Nigel for having answered our plea for more judges. Wilfred and Jean Smith have stepped down after a decade of walking the Avonside streets; who knows, in a few years from now they may find it possible to view churchyards and playing fields without awarding marks out of ten.
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You may be wondering what the results were of the star count survey we held earlier this year. Over 2,200 people took part – and unfortunately they found that light pollution in the United Kingdom is getting worse. ??We want to make our Star Count Week an annual event to bring thousands of people into [...]
The Campaign to Protect Rural England today labels the Budget, ‘a massive threat to the environment’.
The triple whammy of scrapping national brownfield targets, introducing a default yes to development, and pursuing half-baked proposals for land auctions could be devastating to treasured countryside.
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