All members are warmly invited to our Annual General Meeting, which this year will be held on Thursday 2nd April 2020, at 2.30pm, at The Devon Suite, Exeter Court Hotel, Kennford, Exeter EX6 7UX. We are delighted to welcome as our guest speaker, Anne Marie Morris MP (Newton Abbot), who you will recall was unfortunately […]

Dark starry skies are a beautiful sight and a distinctive feature of the countryside – we are lucky in Devon to benefit from beautiful dark skies in much of the county. But with ever increasing development and ensuing light pollution, many people now can’t see the stars. Please take part in CPRE’s Star Count – […]

This year’s competition is now open! Entries are once again invited from churches of all denominations from across the county to find Devon’s Best Churchyard 2020. Entries must be received by 31st March 2020. All details and competition entry forms can be downloaded from our website.

We were delighted to be the guest speakers at the National Trust Culm & Exe Valley group’s meeting in Tiverton on 9th November. It was a pleasure to meet everybody and to have the opportunity to present our Devon Housing Needs report and to discuss planning proposals in the area. Mid Devon’s countryside is under […]

Do you sit on a town or parish council in Devon? If so, you need to know how to respond to planning proposals affecting your community. CPRE Devon invites you to a special ‘planning workshop’ for Devon’s town and parish councils on Tuesday, 15th October 2019, from 10am-1pm at Hatherleigh Community Centre. How town and […]

Thank you to all the entrants who joined us at The Chapter House, Exeter Cathedral on Wednesday 25th September 2019, for our prize giving tea. And a special thank you to the Bishop of Exeter who joined us for the prize giving. Devon’s Best Churchyard 2019 is……..All Saints, East Budleigh. Many congratulations. Runner Up awards […]

CPRE Devon organised two litter picking events as part of the national CPRE ‘Green Clean’ campaign for the month of September. Our Teignbridge members collected several bags of litter at Hackney Marshes, near Newton Abbot on Saturday 14th September. And then on 20th September, we helped Exeter based company Devon Norse with a litter pick […]

We were delighted to have been asked by Crediton Town Council to present our independent report which uncovers the truth about Devon’s housing need. We very much enjoyed the meeting at The Boniface Centre and there were lots of interesting points raised and questions asked, with great concern about the number of new homes planned […]

We’ve really enjoyed meeting so many people today at the Ashburton Food Festival. What a great event in such a beautiful town! Lots of concern over new housing on green fields, and lack of genuinely affordable new housing. Thank you to everybody who came to see us, and to everybody who entered our photo competition. […]

We have very much enjoyed visiting every corner of the County visiting all the churchyards who have entered our competition in its second year. We received more entries this year, and a huge variety, which has been fantastic – thank you to everybody who entered for your support – so its taken a bit of […]