This September, we're launching Love Your Countryside. A month of fresh ideas and inspiration, delivered straight to your inbox. Explore, connect with and celebrate the countryside that shapes your life. Sign up today - https://bit.ly/4h6n0f6

That's a wrap on #CPRELUC A brilliant, honest day of conversations about England's land-use crisis with policymakers, farmers, planners, researchers and advocates all in one room. Thanks to everyone who joined us and to our co-hosts @UCL. Recordings and write-up coming soon.

Session 3 live at #CPRELUC: From ambition to action. Helen Browning @thesoilassociation.bsky.social, Carolyn McKenzie @adeptla.bsky.social, Ellie Brodie and Baroness Barbara Young on what integrated land use actually looks like — and how we get there.

Session 2 underway at #CPRELUC: Designing systems that work. Rachel Fisher @rtpiplanners.bsky.social, Natalie Prosser @theoep.bsky.social, Tom Curtis @3keel.bsky.social and representatives from Defra and MHCLG on what it would actually take to integrate land-use decisions across sectors.

Session 1 is live at #CPRELUC: How did we get here? Emma Pinchbeck @thecccuk.bsky.social, Guy Shrubsole guyshrubsole.bsky.social, Prof Mark Tewdwr-Jones @ucl.ac.uk and Sue Pritchard @ffc-commission.bsky.social are making the case for rethinking how England uses its land.

Today we’re hosting, ‘Running out: facing the crisis in land use’, at UCL East, bringing together policymakers, farmers, planners and researchers to tackle England's land-use crisis head on. We'll be posting highlights all day. Follow along with #CPRELUC 🌿

Land Use Conference - meet the speakers (part two) 💚 Join academics, experts, campaigners, broadcasters and decision-makers to discuss solutions to England's land crisis. @marktewdwr-jones.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @3keel.bsky.social 25 June | Register now 👇 www.cpre.org.uk/land-use-con...

Land Use Conference - meet the speakers (part one) 💚 Join decision-makers, campaigners, experts and changemakers to confront the land crisis head on. 25 June | Secure your place 👇 www.cpre.org.uk/land-use-con... @guyshrubsole.bsky.social @adeptla.bsky.social @suepritch.bsky.social

What a whirlwind RHS Chelsea Flower Show has been. This morning we were awarded Garden of the Year & we're over the moon! 🥳 Designed by Sarah Eberle, we're proud the garden is spreading the word about the beauty & importance of our edgelands, and why they must be protected for generations to come.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show: Charles and Camilla view gardens as gnome ban lifted

Sir David Beckham co-designed a garden with the King and Alan Titchmarsh for this year's show, which also welcomes back garden gnomes.

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We want every town and city to be surrounded by thriving, protected countryside. We're asking everyone across England to stand with us and call for countryside On The Edge to be protected and regenerated — for nature, for climate, for wellbeing. Add your name - bit.ly/4eA2Rg7 📸Joe Dunckley

Land has never been under more pressure. Our Land Use Conference this summer convenes experts, farmers, changemakers and decision-makers to face the crisis head-on at @ucl.ac.uk. 🔗 Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/running-ou...

Running out: facing the crisis in land use

Join decision-makers, academics, farmers, land managers & changemakers at this one-day conference rethinking land use for people and planet.

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New towns done right means brownfield first. We welcome most of the government's proposed new town sites — but two London locations would mean building on Green Belt when brownfield land is available. That's the wrong call. Find out more👇 https://bit.ly/3NsHhPD

Seven new town sites proposed by government: our response

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.

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It’s time to stand up for our Protected Landscapes. The Fingleton Review of nuclear regulation calls for weakening the protections that currently require councils to support and defend National Parks and National Landscapes. [1/2]

The Fingleton Review puts England’s Protected Landscapes at risk

It's time to stand up for Protected Landscapes.

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The countryside is at a crossroads. Climate change, nature loss & decisions that risk destroying landscapes and farmland are putting pressure on the land that sustains us all. Support our Letter to England to help shape a countryside for everyone. ✍️ https://bit.ly/49XHwJJ

🎉 We’ve turned 100! From the first Green Belts to protecting and planting hedgerows, dark skies and treasured landscapes, together we’ve stood up for our countryside – and we’re just getting started. But first: Our past 100 years in 100 seconds. https://bit.ly/4aG4iaV #LoveYourCountryside

CPRE: 100 years in 100 days

2026 marks our centenary year. A milestone made possible by the dedication of our members, supporters and communities who have stood with us to protect the countryside. 100 years in 100 seconds - watch our story unfold... © CPRE 2026: Includes third-p...

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✨ You might have spotted something new… Next year marks 100 years of standing up for the countryside, and we’re thrilled to unveil our refreshed look - complete with a special centenary logo! Here’s to a century of protecting the places we love, and to the future ahead. 👉 https://bit.ly/48weoJT

The govt has stripped out crucial protections from the Planning & Infrastructure Bill. This includes measures to safeguard nature, prioritise brownfield land and give Parliament proper oversight. https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/government-strips-protections-from-the-planning-and-infrastructure-bill/

Working alongside the Better Planning Coalition, we've helped secure key safeguards for nature and the countryside as the Planning and Infrastructure Bill progresses through the House of Lords. https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/countryside-wins-new-safeguards-in-the-planning-and-infrastructure-bill/

Delivering renewable energy should bring communities together. But developments like this risk industrialising the countryside, while rooftops on homes and businesses sit waiting to be used. CPRE Devon are saying no to 'Beacon Solar'. Please sign and share. https://devoncpre.org.uk/

🌸To mark 100 years of championing the countryside, we’ll be unveiling a show garden next year at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Designed by award-winning garden designer Sarah Eberle & supported by Project Giving Back, the garden celebrates our legacy, & looks to the future of nature and landscapes.

Celebrating 100 years: bringing the countryside to RHS Chelsea Flower Show

CPRE marks 100 years of standing up for the countryside with its debut garden, On the Edge, at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2026.

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The definition of ‘grey belt’ is vague. This risks opening up Green Belt land to unnecessary development. We're supporting CPRE Hertfordshire's petition in calling for change. Sign the petition. 🔗 https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/help-protect-our-green-belt-petition-to-change-the-grey-belt-definition/

A solar farm the size of Heathrow has been approved in Lincolnshire, on some of the UK’s best farmland. This is industrialisation of our countryside while rooftops, warehouses & car parks sit unused. Rooftop solar alone could deliver over 60% of the UK’s solar target - without covering our fields.

Government approves 'UK's largest' solar farm in Lincolnshire

Developers claim it will power about 300,000 homes - making it larger than any currently built.

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We've returned from the Conservative party conference. They announced they no longer support the Climate Change Act and would drop net zero targets. Climate change is the biggest threat to the countryside, and we call on all parties to set out how they're going to tackle this threat. [1/2]

We can’t afford to weaken National Park protections ⚠️ But there are rumours that some in Westminster want to remove the Protected Landscapes duty - the only real power to secure action for nature We can't let 30 years of campaigning go down the drain https://bit.ly/48OseaX

We have just returned from the Green Party conference, our last of the season. 🌳 We spent the weekend talking about nature friendly planning, the importance of brownfield first and looking after our countryside.

We attended the Labour Party Conference, where we made sure rural communities, countryside protection, & smart solutions for renewable energy were part of the conversation. We spoke up for our landscapes, raised issues around rural housing, & met MPs to spotlight the challenges facing rural areas.

The UK is the fifth-worst in Europe for green space loss, with 1,680 football pitches of protected land lost in five years. Brownfield sites with planning permission sit unused. We must rethink our towns & cities as compact, sustainable places that celebrate the countryside on their doorstep.

UK fifth-worst country in Europe for loss of green space to development

Exclusive: 1,680 football pitches of protected natural land in England, Wales and Northern Ireland lost in five years

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This evening at Labour Party Conference, we will launch 'Rural Futures' with @thefabians.bsky.social, a pamphlet exploring the opportunities & challenges facing the countryside. With over 110 Labour MPs representing rural constituencies, it’s time to put rural regeneration at the heart of policy.

CPRE makes case for the countryside at the Labour conference

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.

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Well-designed new towns have a role to play, and we welcome the focus on urban regeneration and affordable homes. They should be led by a brownfield-first approach, with genuinely affordable homes and rich in nature. https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/we-respond-to-governments-new-towns-announcement/

We respond to government's new towns announcement

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.

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🏛️We headed to our second party conference of the season - this time with the Liberal Democrats in Bournemouth! We wanted to spotlight nature in key debates on climate, housing, and renewables, urging them to protect landscapes and put the countryside at the heart of planning.