Category: News
Solar Farms. A “Come-in-Handy” Poster for you
There are already over 1,500 acres of our Devon countryside converted to solar panels. The subsidies to the landowner make them hard to resist on…
Monkleigh Primary School Scoop Top Prizes
Monkleigh Primary School win most of the top prizes in the CPRE Pam Parker Map Competition for 2012 Nell Gierke, Zeb Champion and Pippa Clark…
Devon County Council turns down a planning application
This planning application, in the wake of the decision to build a massive incinerator in the Devonport dockyard, never made any sense in waste management…
Best kept village 2012 results
This has been quite a year for Devon’s villages, Diamond Jubilee Celebrations to organize, often leaving a permanent legacy in the form of gates, clocks…
Pam Parker Map Competition 2012 results
There were 52 individual entrants this year, though from a smaller number of schools. There were only 9 maps from south of Dartmoor and none…
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The Government has finally published its National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
CPRE & the Devon Association of Local Councils (DALC) have written an introduction to this new planning system in a format that can be used…
It is not CPRE Devon’s job to argue for or against Global Warming…
CPRE and the Devon Association of Local Councils (DALC) have written a presentation on Neighbourhood Planning designed for you and your Town and Parish Councils…
A Public Survey shows little improvement on Light Pollution
CPRE and the “Campaign for Dark Skies” have completed another “Star Count” for this year. Only 2% of the population had truly dark skies. Saturating…
Wind turbines are threatening to turn Devon and Cornwall into huge “pin cushions”
CPRE Cornwall has joined a group of other interested parties to alert people to the threat from wind turbine planning applications this has been highlighted…
Undesignated land and the threat from development
CPRE has published a series of maps showing how much of England is vulnerable to development.
The Planning System Explained
CPRE Devon & the National Association of Local Councils have produced a set of three excellent booklets which whilst large in file size are worth…
Surrounding countryside may become a “waste hotspot”…
…unless we take action now to ensure that a planning application for yet another Incinerator near Lee Mill is refused and that newer and better…
It’s CPRE’s Best Kept Village Competition time once again
If you want your village to enter this competition here’s how to go about it. This link will also allow you to see the BBC’s…
Bradworthy Young Cartographers win top prize in Pam Parker Map competition
Read the news story here
The Localism Act received Royal Ascent on 15th November
CPRE south East has issued a useful summary. It is now up to every local community to get its act together. “Neighbourhood Plans” will be…
See this year’s Best Kept Village and Pam Parker Childrens Map Competition results
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