A decision regarding the planning application to lay the cables for the proposed floating offshore wind farm has been delayed until next year. North Devon District Council seek more information. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c89v1j1xekzo

Thank you to everybody who was able to join us in the beautiful moorland town of Chagford for this year’s AGM. And especially thank you to our guest speaker The Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe. We really enjoyed the wide ranging discussions, including the planning reforms, the impact on the countryside, housing – and in particular […]

All members are invited to our AGM, which this year will be held on Wednesday 16th October 2024 at 2.30pm at Jubilee Hall, Chagford, TQ13 8DP. We are absolutely delighted that our guest speaker will be former Cabinet Minister and celebrated Dartmoor resident,  The Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe DSG.  We do hope you can join […]

Will you help us ‘defend Devon’?                                                     Devon CPRE have greatly enjoyed being on the road this summer encouraging people who care about the future of Devon’s countryside to get involved and […]

We welcome the ‘right decision for Devon’s countryside’ and are celebrating a momentous decision by councillors in Torridge to go against the recommendation of their Planning Officer and refuse permission for a 73-acre solar farm with battery storage on agricultural land at Ebberley Down, near Roborough.  It’s one of very few applications across Devon that has […]

Devon CPRE looks forward to working with all the Devon MPs going forward as closely as we have with most of them over recent years, to push forward our key policies of protecting Devon’s prime pasture land from development and prioritising affordable housing for local people. We are very concerned, however, about the Labour energy […]

Two weeks ago we wrote to every candidate standing throughout Devon’s 13 parliamentary constituencies in the General Election (some 87 candidates) asking whether they support our key aims regarding planning reform – protecting prime pastureland and solving the rural housing crisis.  Our email is below, together with the names of the 21 who have positively […]

We are calling on Devon’s election candidates to commit to radical planning reforms to solve Devon’s rural housing crisis. Devon CPRE is asking every General Election candidate throughout all Devon’s parliamentary constituencies, to actively campaign for new local authority powers to prioritise affordable housing for local people and increase the stock of social housing. We […]

We are calling on MPs to end the ‘shocking discrimination’ against world-class Devon farmland and will be asking every General Election candidate to actively campaign for ‘Prime Pasture’ to be added to the ‘Best and Most Versatile’ definition to protect Southwest farmland from solar development. The government must end the shocking discrimination against livestock-rearing in […]

Following the success of our previous planning workshop, held before Covid, where over 80 councillors from across Devon attended, we are delighted to be holding our workshop again, giving those who were unable to attend another opportunity to learn from our experienced, independent planning consultant, Jo Widdecombe. We do hope you can join us. If […]