Category: News
Costs and Calculations for Landowners
What are the costs and calculations for landowners considering Renewable Energy Projects? Read an NFU Brief here
CPRE SW Region Webite Archive
CPRE SW Region is putting its archive from 2000 – 2013 on line here at CPRE Devon. Dip into this here
Marine Planning is coming to a coastline near you!
Both Marine and Terrestrial Planning will now concern all of us and overlap between Authorities in a completely new way, Read about it here.
CPRE National Office’s Housing Policy Guidance
CPRE National Office’s Housing Policy Guidance. Read these here
Policy Guidance Material
Wind Farms – Distance from housing Batsworthy Cross Decision CPRE – Brief on Growth & Infrastructure Bill Solar PV Guidelines for Cornwall SW Policy Guidance…
Wind turbines threaten our countryside
It maybe next door in Cornwall, but see how the march of the wind turbine threatens our countryside!
Planning Reform Proposals
The Government has presented us with a raft of complex changes to the planning system, many of which we feel are unhelpful. Just keeping pace…
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…
Keep in touch with developments between our news letter mailings
Read the June E-Bulletin here.
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.