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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New recommended membership rates have been agreed for 2011. These reflect an increase in line with inflation and are the first increase since 2009 as there was no increase last year. However the rate for Parish Council membership is not being increased.
New rates from January 2011
Individual
£31
Joint
£40
Family
£46
Individual under 25
£6
Organisation
£34
Parish Council
£29
Individual Concessionary
£12
Joint Concessionary
£18
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Avonside CPRE objected to the planning application to build a new football stadium and associated development in Green Belt land at Ashton Vale.
The application received planning permission but a group of local residents applied for Town Green status for the site. An independent inspector recommended that this should be granted. The football club now plan [...]
News of the 2010 competition can be found on our Village of the Year 2010 page.
CPRE Avonside newsletter, issue 1, Spring 2010 (1.9 Mb PDF)
According to a CPRE/British Astronomical Association Survey on Light Pollution, eight out of ten people taking part in a survey, published in April 2010 by CPRE and the British Astronomical Association’s Campaign for Dark Skies, have their view of the night sky affected by light pollution. Of those affected, half said their sleep [...]
CPRE Avon Green Belt fact sheet Jan 2010
And more info about the green belt can be found on our Green Belt page
Download “Press release 18/11/2009 : The loss of high grade farmland for development is inconsistent with ambitions for food security” here
At the Avonside Branch AGM held on 14th November 2009, Georgie Bigg was elected Chair of Avonside CPRE.
Georgie is also Chair of the North Somerset District Committee.
Intrepid cyclist, Russian psychiatrist Dr Marina Voikhanskaya (74) used pedal power to highlight areas where rural beauty and tranquility are threatened by development.
Marina cycled the 430 miles from her home in Cambridge to Lands End in 10 days. On September 1st and 2nd She met members of the Avonside branch of CPRE and local [...]