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- CPRE Kent prepares to challenge government in National Landscape battle
- The latest edition of Kent Countryside Voice – read it here!
- Deep concern at minister’s approval of 165 homes in National Landscape
- Contractor appointed to clear Hoad’s Wood
- Minster Marshes: fighting the fight against the devastation of Sea Link
- The clock is ticking! Our AGM is on Friday this week… do please join us
- ‘Disappointing’: CPRE Kent responds to Highsted Park call-in by government
- CPRE Kent: AGM 2024
- Delayed again… the decision on Lower Thames Crossing
- The wait goes on… Lower Thames Crossing announcement is postponed again
- Hoad’s Wood: an update
- Proposal for battery energy storage system on Grade 1 farmland blocked
- Hoad’s Wood: campaigners aim to spark action from EA with legal letter
- Hoad’s Wood: picturesque woodland turned into wasteland by illegal dumping
- Missing the sound of the turtle dove? Then join this webinar…
- Sea Link: time is running out to join National Grid consultation
- Sea Link: do you want to contribute to third round of consultation?
- Winterbourne development bid: even we were taken aback by this one
- Meet our new president
- CPRE welcomes the chance to work with new Labour government for countryside
- Mary-Ann Ochota is elected president of CPRE, the countryside charity
- What future now for London Resort after company is put up for sale?
- The general election is less than a month away: countryside make-or-break
- Lower Thames Crossing decision delayed by six months
- Last chance to comment on Canterbury Local Plan: consultation ends June 3
- Highland Court decision is a sad outcome for our countryside
- Hoad’s Wood: minister orders Environment Agency to pay for waste clean-up
- Making Space for Nature: the scheme giving wildlife a helping hand
- Hoad’s Wood: campaigners set action deadline for clearing to begin
- Countryside-wrecking solar farm refused permission by Ashford council
- ‘Majestic’ Hoo oak trees face the axe: petition launched to save them
- Get Hoad’s Wood cleared! We join other groups in call for immediate action
- The wondrous tale of Buckmaster House
- Local Plans: district by district
- Maidstone: a depressing case study of how not to produce a Local Plan
- ‘I have absolutely no confidence in or trust in National Grid whatsoever’
- Happy Easter from CPRE Kent
- Can you contribute to the fighting fund to save Minster Marshes?
- Environment loses out as Dover council approves Betteshanger development
- What price our natural world? Dover planners to decide Betteshanger fate
- Read the CPRE Kent response to proposal for Ash Level solar farm
- Lower Thames Crossing: learn more at drop-in events
- Downland winery and warehousing challenge: first funding target is hit
- Funding appeal almost there… but time running out to get it over the line
- The county’s windmills: read our response to KCC consultation
- Lower Thames Crossing: examination hearings close
- Rough sleeping in countryside higher than some urban areas, analysis shows
- Housing crisis poses threat to survival of rural communities: CPRE report
- Sea Link consultation ends on Monday (December 18)
- Back at The George for our Christmas party
- New chairman, a visit from the chief executive and a catch-up: what an AGM!
- What future for Kent’s windmills in county council proposals?
- High Weald: we make submission to consultation on revised management plan
- Roger Mortlock, our national CEO, is guest speaker at November’s Kent AGM
- The big society
- Betteshanger: the hotel and spa application is back in
- Dover’s Green Infrastructure Strategy: you can join the consultation
- The state our nature’s in… desperate
- Sea Link: the new threat to east Kent’s natural environment?
- Green Belt is indispensable solution to climate, nature and food security
- Betteshanger: scheme pulled but battle to save site might not be over yet
- Do you want to help in fight against Gatwick expansion?
- Charities call on Michael Gove to end Swanscombe theme park threat
- Canterbury council backs huge development in AONB
- ‘At last we have a win for the environment’: Betteshanger scheme refused
- Withdrawal of government cash should spark council rethink of housing plans
- Inspector ignores local sentiment in Local Plan verdict
- LTC examination: timetable revealed
- Cuts to bus services makes grim news for people in rural areas
- Henny Shotter: a volunteer’s story
- The Weald takes centre stage in Daily Telegraph article on housing
- Big builders exploiting loophole to push through greenfield developments
- We’re looking for people to join us as assistant planning volunteers
- Rooftops and car parks can power country to more than half its solar energy
- Turnden: Secretary of State ‘rethinking’ refusal of planning permission
- Just who are we sacrificing Kent’s countryside for?
- Developer to challenge Secretary of State over Turnden housing refusal
- Light pollution means most can’t enjoy wonder of a properly dark sky
- Beauty not betrayed
- David Morrish, Thanet district chairman, dies aged 78
- Beginning of the end for Lower Thames Crossing?
- Do you want to sign petition against Lower Thames Crossing?
- Can you donate in bid to save a special site and its wildlife?
- Hormones… the menace in our water
- Our stolen night skies
- Join us for a rather special Star Count event at nature reserve
- Eutrophication: the monster hiding in plain sight
- What Makes a Good Local Plan?
- The destruction of Canterbury’s countryside: it doesn’t have to be this way
- Biodiversity Net Gain
- Now we look to the Lords after MPs push through Retained EU Law Bill
- It’s time for Star Count 2023!
- Record-breaking number of brownfield sites identified for redevelopment
- With more doubts over cost of LTC, please register to join planning process
- London Resort: ‘We will be changing the proposals significantly’
- Christmas lunch… simply the best
- Planning reforms consultation: CPRE ‘deeply concerned’
- Campaign sees planning changes give more power to communities
- Farmers want funding to extend hedgerow network and boost nature
- Princes Parade scheme paused… now let’s see it dropped for good
- Our Christmas party is almost upon us
- Lower Thames Crossing bid accepted for government inspection
- How we influenced the Tunbridge Wells Local Plan
- A Vision for Swanscombe
- We back call for review of Lower Thames Crossing plans
- Talk, friends and food at the AGM
- CPRE Kent AGM 2022
- Lower Thames Crossing: it might affect you, too… wherever you live!
- ‘Simply appalling’: CPRE Kent responds to proposed planning changes
- Affected by Gatwick aircraft noise? Then this online meeting is for you
- Gardening for wildlife (and you!)
- Our Queen, our patron: the end of an era
- ‘Giving fracking the green light is a hideous mistake’: CPRE reacts to PM
- Green Belt feels the pressure from huge hike in development plans
- “So much for the climate crisis!’ CPRE Kent responds to Manston approval
- We’re looking for volunteers to help us in our work for Kent – interested?
- Farmland that could grow 250,000 tonnes of vegetables a year lost to development, research shows
- Crispin Truman to step down as CPRE chief executive in autumn
- Keep this fight going: the message is clear at LTC meeting at Shorne and Ashenbank
- Join Old Bunyard for a Kentish photographic fest
- We’re looking for people to join us as assistant planning volunteers… can you help?
- Think you know the Isle of Oxney? Walks booklet reveals hidden treasures of this special place
- Cleve Hill solar: CPRE Kent calls on Swale council to resist developer’s bid to push boundaries of agreement
- We’re at the county show! Stop by and say hallo…
- How planning by appeal cost Thanet one of its few remaining woodlands
- LTC Local Refinement Consultation – simply not good enough from National Highways
- Let June Bloom… and marvel at nature’s magic
- Last call on LTC consultation: it ends today
- With less than a week to run on LTC consultation, here’s a step-by-step guide
- Everything’s lovely in the gardens for long-awaited CPRE Kent outing to Canterbury
- Lower Thames Crossing: read CPRE Kent’s Gravesham committee response
- Doing archaeology better
- Green Belt: the countryside next door to 30 million people needs investment to level up access to nature, says CPRE
- Presentation to Sir Robert a highlight of special day in Kent
- Fears over soaring energy costs reduce light pollution, Star Count suggests
- Let June Bloom! CPRE Kent launches a very special campaign
- Lower Thames Crossing: what might be the final consultation begins tomorrow
- Planning and the countryside: FAQs
- Blinded by the lights
- Laying the building myth to rest
- The most important question of all?
- Petition: change the housing methodology that’s costing us greenfield land
- Eco Expo is back! And it’s bigger and better than ever
- The spring edition of Kent Countryside Voice is here for you to read and enjoy
- All About Solar: your chance to join free event tackling a contentious subject
- Planning to fail: net zero is impossible without urgent changes to planning policy, CPRE analysis finds
- London Resort plans withdrawn…
- Weeds, Wildflowers, green and white spaces: Making design and management of green spaces more ethnically inclusive
- Is Maidstone’s Local Plan really ready for submission?
- Developer’s assault on Thanet Green Wedge repelled with refusal of plans for housing estate
- Regenerative Agriculture – watch the talk
- So Gladman wins again… Shottendane decision shows how government policy backs developer profits and betrays the people waiting for affordable housing
- Brilliant news! BBC Studios and ITV Studios pull support for Swanscombe theme park
- Turn your lights out for Swanscombe… and join us on Saturday (March 5) to count the stars
- Public asked to become citizen scientists in annual Star Count to map light pollution in our skies
- Be a part of Star Count 2022: it’s almost with us!
- Star Count is almost upon us… and we’re putting Swanscombe peninsula in the spotlight
- Laying the myths to rest: Canterbury crisis shows how desperate government policy and housebuilder attitudes are making homes unaffordable… and destroying our countryside
- At last, the meeting to get examination of London Resort under way has a date
- Lower Thames Crossing: learn the latest about the scheme at four drop-in events
- Ensure local parks and green spaces are given the same protection as national parks, says CPRE
- With wildlife protection under threat, CPRE Kent responds to government review
- And now for the good news: two appeal decisions confirm status of protected countryside
- Enough is enough! Scrap the Housing Delivery Test and stop rewarding developers’ failure to build homes already approved
- Hundreds join Faversham march in peaceful protest over greenfield development
- Another 1,500 houses added to the Thanet mix
- Faversham protest walk will focus on loss of countryside to thousands of houses… and people from across Kent are invited
- Explosion in holiday lets is strangling rural communities, research shows
- Explosion in holiday lets is strangling rural communities, new CPRE research shows
- London Resort, Swanscombe, the BBC and biodiversity… actions will speak louder than words
- Shottendane housing scheme: inquiry into Gladman appeal begins this week
- Hormones… the menace in our water
- The joy of SuDs!
- Why fungi matter… possibly more than you think
- Fighting for the countryside: Supreme Court ruling means it can be a costly business
- Goodbye to Tim Reader and Graham Warren – and thank you for everything
- Back into the light: the memorial to CPRE Kent champion Cyril Chettoe
- Happy Christmas from all at CPRE Kent
- More than 30 groups join Kent’s Day of Action
- Maidstone Local Plan consultation: last chance to make your thoughts known
- … and finally we got to party
- Good to see you again! Members meet in person for AGM at familiar venue… and we were on YouTube too!
- Gravesham residents make their point on Day of Action
- Gravesham residents make their point on Day of Action
- ‘A powerful and memorable campaign’: CPRE wins award for response to planning proposals
- Tragic waste of green fields as undeveloped brownfield hits new high, CPRE research reveals
- Join Sunday’s Day of Action against overdevelopment in Kent
- Sick and tired of overdevelopment in Kent? Then join Sunday’s Day of Action
- Join us at Ebbsfleet for this month’s netwalking event
- Join us at Ebbsfleet for this month’s netwalking event
- Judicial review of Lydden Hill circuit decision to be heard in February 2022
- Manston report: airport hopes dealt another grim blow
- Judicial review of Lydden Hill circuit decision to be heard in 2022
- Time to ditch the London Resort: wildlife charities call for withdrawal of theme park planning application after Swanscombe wins special protection status
- Pink Wellies – Will Walk
- London Resort theme park: wildlife charities call for withdrawal of plans
- Swanscombe: will Natural England confirm SSSI status?
- The absurdity of Lenham Heath ‘garden town’
- Join us – in person! – for this year’s AGM
- Liz Akenhead, champion of the Tunbridge Wells countryside, honoured with volunteer award
- Kent Countryside Voice is out – read it here!
- Lousy public transport, loneliness and lack of affordable housing is pushing young people out of the countryside, CPRE survey reveals
- Cleve Hill solar site is sold… and given an extraordinary new name
- Cleve Hill solar site is sold – and given an extraordinary new name
- Vast Canterbury housing scheme blocked – for now
- Vast Canterbury housing scheme blocked… for now
- Heard of netwalking? Join us to find out more about this buzz activity (and have a great time)
- The development that will ‘transform village beyond recognition’ but satisfies planning officers
- Swanscombe rally proves a win-win on a special day in a special place
- Swanscombe rally proves a win-win for a special place
- See you tomorrow (Saturday) for the Swanscombe rally… but the SSSider is off
- Join us at the rally to save Swanscombe Marshes
- Join Swanscombe rally to show how much you care for this special site (and listen to a band and drink cider)
- Scheme for thousands of new houses near Sittingbourne would have devastating impact on countryside (and it’s not even in the Local Plan)
- Sittingbourne housing scheme would have devastating impact on countryside
- Join us for a walk in the countryside
- Would you like to join us for a walk in the countryside?
- CPRE Kent fights at inquiry to protect High Weald AONB countryside
- London Resort examination… now we’re looking at April
- CPRE Kent fights at inquiry to protect High Weald AONB countryside
- ‘A victory for common sense’: CPRE responds to reported rethink of planning reform
- Boosting hedgerows by 40 per cent would create 25,000 jobs, CPRE research reveals
- Nature, Health and a Low-Carbon Good Life
- Join us for an evening of fun, creativity and hope in the face of the climate crisis… but be quick!
- Hedgerows: how we can help protect a countryside treasure
- London Resort examination will not begin before January 2022
- Our open letter to government: heroic hedgerows and climate change
- Coming your way: more development but not more doctors or school and nursery places
- Canterbury: the council cornering itself into a position where 20th-century solutions are being applied to 21st-century issues
- The revised NPPF is out! Not bedtime reading maybe, but it’s going to play a big part in planning policy
- Gladman pushed back for a third time: ‘a great day for democracy’
- CPRE Kent urges Thanet council to be bold and refuse Gladman application that runs contrary to Local Plan
- Lower Thames Crossing: Community Impacts Consultation begins this month
- Please tell Natural England you want the Swanscombe peninsula protected
- High Court challenge puts Lower Thames Crossing in the spotlight
- CPRE Kent supports call for consultation on proposals to reduce wildlife protection
- Delight as Thanet council ‘sticks to its guns’ and sends back Gladman housing scheme
- Pathetic! CPRE Thanet chairman slams cut in affordable housing as Gladman tries again to push through housing scheme
- Campaigns… and how (hopefully) to win them
- Swanscombe peninsula: the last resort?
- Join us in telling the government: don’t dilute or delay a Deposit Return Scheme
- Contentious Betteshanger development approved despite presence of one UK’s fastest-declining birds
- Watch again: Catriona Riddell in conversation with the CPRE County Forum on Green Belt and the Planning Bill
- Housing scheme in High Weald AONB called in for review by planning inspector
- London Resort developer accused of providing ‘insufficient’ information on traffic impact
- Council asks Secretary of State to intervene in Local Plan
- Watch brownfield seminar
- Swale Local Plan: it’s critical to make your views known
- Just why did Jenrick remove measures to cut carbon emissions at Swale development that sparked ‘Cash for favours’ headline?
- London Resort to make no ‘material’ changes to plans as CPRE Kent joins other conservation groups in pushing for rethink
- ‘We have a Planning Bill that looks set to take us back to a deregulated dark age of development’
- ‘Tear it down and start again’: the Queen’s Speech and the Planning Bill
- Council writes to Secretary of State asking for intervention in Local Plan dispute
- ‘Diabolical’: Jenrick backs huge housing scheme that sparked ‘Cash for favours’ headline
- Church looks to release brownfield land for homes
- Coming Home: how the Church is looking to release brownfield land for housing
- It’s election time again – here’s the CPRE manifesto
- Your chance to catch up with CPRE County Branches Forum seminar on brownfield land
- As Swale Local Plan is pushed forward with unseemly haste, it is critical you make your views known
- Gladman pushed back in Margate… for now
- Our AONBs are under threat like never before… and the High Weald is suffering the most
- Thanet farmland targeted by Gladman
- No cheer on Princes Parade
- Sevenoaks knocked back again in Local Plan dispute
- Revised Lower Thames Crossing plans miss Easter target date
- It’s out! The latest edition of Kent Countryside Voice is here for you all to enjoy
- Thanet council proposals to charge public in planning process: we question lawfulness, lack of democracy and equity
- Credit to Dartford council as it prepares a genuine brownfield-first strategy
- Manston: another problem looms in freight-hub bid
- Dramatic reduction in light pollution during lockdown, Star Count reveals
- Can you chip in to Kent Downs campaign as judicial review looms?
- Gardening for wildlife (and you!)
- ‘Six long years of dither and delay’: the countryside charity reacts as DRS is pushed back to 2024… at best
- Five times more funding needed to ‘bus back better’ in rural England, CPRE research reveals
- Farewell and thank you to two champions of CPRE Kent
- More than a thousand new homes, no relief road and a very congested approach to the cathedral city
- Swanscombe wins SSSI designation… but there’s a four-month consultation to come
- Is this house well designed?
- Swale consultation extended but councillors won’t be getting a report back before Local Plan is submitted
- Does Transport Secretary revelation scupper plans for Lower Thames Crossing?
- ‘Greenest Budget desperately needed but not delivered’
- Pressure on the Green Belt has quadrupled since 2013
- The trees that hold the secrets to our past… and our future?
- Decisions, decisions: how does planning work during the pandemic?
- Swale says it’s a listening council. Now it has the chance to prove it
- Confirmed: Manston DCO has been quashed
- Tick tock! Time is running out to join Star Count
- Surprise, surprise! Kent’s environment suffers the failings of flawed government planning policy
- Watch The One Show on BBC tonight and enjoy a feature on Star Count
- ‘A depressingly stark example of how strategic planning should not be done’: Canterbury councillors back ‘deeply flawed’ housing plans
- Swale Local Plan: have your say now!
- All ready for Star Count? We have a video for you to enjoy
- Swale Local Plan: consultation begins within days
- Eco-development… or eco-disaster?
- Swale – why the rush?
- ‘We’re being sold down the river for £5 million’… the residents battling a deeply unpopular housing scheme
- London Resort theme park makes it to examination stage
- Star Count can inspire us in lockdown… and it’s fun
- CPRE joins coalition in call for a better planning vision
- Be a star… and join this year’s Star Count
- With a swathe of the North Kent Marshes to be lost in the name of green energy, the government chooses not intervene in plans for a new coal mine
- Appeal inspector backs 440-unit housing development at Otham
- Distress at plans for Dover border control site but MP points to ‘exciting opportunity’
- Giant theme park planning process begins
- Happy Christmas… and stick in there!
- Canterbury City Council backs 4,000-unit housing development on farmland
- How lockdown drove more people to the countryside… and produced more litter
- A message to the people of Gravesham…
- Councillors revolt over government plans to dismantle planning system
- Manston airport: now the DCO is set to be quashed
- Gravesham district launches website in response to Green Belt threat
- Environmental mitigation, impact on traffic and approach to consultation among Lower Thames Crossing DCO issues
- Lower Thames Crossing: bid for planning consent delayed
- Don’t forget the nature: CPRE responds to 10-point environment plan
- Judicial review of inspector’s Sevenoaks Local Plan verdict fails
- Settle down with the latest edition of Kent Voice
- The Greenbelt Campaign Group in Gravesham
- Gravesham Green Belt: fight for it or lose it!
- Enough brownfield land for 1.3 million new homes, CPRE report reveals
- Proposed changes to the country’s planning system: CPRE Kent chairman’s statement
- Another important consultation on new planning rules closes…
- Read our response to the consultation on planning changes
- Lower Thames Crossing: Highways England submits application for Development Consent Order
- CPRE Kent AGM 2020
- Coastal bungalows scheme thrown out
- Lenham Heath new town faces water-quality hurdle after Natural England advice
- Canterbury council revokes its own permission for Wincheap park & ride extension
- CPRE responds to planning consultation that could spell destruction for our countryside
- Please sign our petition: don’t let the government deregulate planning
- Concerns over open space and density scupper scheme for 900 homes at Herne Bay
- CPRE Kent supports county MPs in attack on ‘inherently unreasonable’ new housing targets
- Our stolen night skies
- Can we allow this popular cliff-top walk to be ruined by bungalow estate?
- £34 million on a new station that will increase journey time from Thanet to London: a ‘robust business case’… apparently
- Thanet Parkway railway station: is this the most expensive white elephant we’ve spotted for a while?
- Wind farm plan stopped in its tracks
- Last chance to save Forty Acres: can you help in battle to ward off developer planning to build over a treasured stretch of countryside?
- Petition asks for green buffer zone between Mersham and proposed customs clearance site
- ‘Landmark’ planning reforms: will they really benefit the Kent countryside?
- London Green Belt Council welcomes proposed countryside protections but fears for local democracy
- You have eight days to help fund Manston airport judicial review bid
- Lower Thames Crossing consultation: time (really is!) running out to make your voice heard
- Truth about impact of the Lower Thames Crossing on local roads revealed at public meeting
- How the Chancellor’s ‘mini-Budget’ missed the mark on transport and housing
- Come and speak to us at Lower Thames Crossing display in Meopham
- Come and work for CPRE Kent as a planning officer
- CPRE slates government’s proposals for planning deregulation
- ‘Shocking’: CPRE Kent director responds to decision to grant Manston airport DCO
- Lower Thames Crossing: rallying call to take part in next phase of consultation
- ‘A once-in-a-generation chance to unleash potential of the countryside’: CPRE’s regeneration manifesto
- ‘The PM’s “new deal” makes a mockery of the government’s so-called green recovery’
- Kent, Our Kent: a creative pilgrimage
- Remember localism? Now prepare to meet zonal planning and development corporations
- You can join online talk on gardens, conservation and threatened species
- ‘Decision on Ebbsfleet tunnels offers a sustainable future’
- Lockdown lesson for government: more than two-thirds in South East want to see their local green space enhanced
- Kent, Our Kent: beautiful Teston in the frame
- Lower Thames Crossing: an option that is neither healthy nor cost-effective
- Thousands join Star Count 2020 to show the value of dark skies
- Cleve Hill Solar Park: making money at the expense of the environment in the name of the environment
- And now for some verse…
- No brownfield survey, no idea where the jobs will come from, no protection for farmland… is there anything good about Thanet’s draft Local Plan?
- Protect our green spaces, government is urged in lockdown survey
- Kent, Our Kent: Come into the garden…
- Kent, Our Kent: a stroll around Castle Hill
- Lower Thames Crossing consultation: the CPRE Kent response
- Kent, Our Kent: beautiful bluebells, from any angle
- Kent, Our Kent: a delightful view from the saddle
- We support council in its Local Plan challenge, says Sevenoaks chairman
- Kent, Our Kent: the beauty way out west
- Thanet loses an environmental champion as Eileen Randall passes away
- Shop UK… and enjoy home delivery
- Ranscombe Farm nature reserve in the frame
- Kent, Our Kent: how our churches can speak to us
- Benenden Blue: it’s not a cheese, so what is it?
- Victorious Vicky smashes 2.6 Challenge in grand effort for CPRE Kent
- Appreciating the silent skies? Then join this survey asking how we’re affected by noise pollution
- ‘We fundamentally disagree with the inspector’s conclusions and believe key parts of the Local Plan requirements have been incorrectly interpreted’: Sevenoaks begins judicial review proceedings in planning battle
- Today is Earth Day’s 50th birthday… let’s celebrate it!
- Can you sponsor Vicky in her 2.6 Challenge?
- Kent, Our Kent
- Thanet finally sees a Local Plan on the horizon… and an awful lot more housing
- If there was ever a time to support our rural businesses, that time is now
- And now it’s time for our crossword!
- Have some fun and play the Wildlife Wordsearch
- And now a story for our younger followers…
- Free Will service extended to end of 2020
- CPRE Kent, lockdown and the natural beauty all around us
- How the coronavirus crisis is hitting rural communities: letter goes to government
- Let’s all look out for each other: a message from CPRE’s chief executive
- Thames Crossing consultation extended to April 2
- Kent Voice: you can read the new edition now!
- CPRE Kent: statement on coronavirus
- Lower Thames Crossing public events cancelled but consultation remains open
- Eco Expo event in Margate cancelled due to coronavirus
- Time to rethink our farming and save our soils
- Love Thanet’s remaining countryside? Please join us at Eco Expo in Margate if you do
- FREE CPRE Kent talk on climate change and older buildings
- Be a star… get out and count the stars
- The transport deserts leaving our rural communities high and dry
- Housing delivery test: what it means for Kent
- There’s a petition against housebuilding levels in Maidstone… and you can sign it!
- Gravesham residents form group to fight council’s housing proposals
- Climate change, energy efficiency and traditional buildings: talk will focus on this important subject
- Free Will Month: February 2020
- Lydden Hill circuit expansion approved by council
- Lower Thames Crossing: you can join renewed consultation on giant road scheme
- ‘The government has presided over a decade of disastrous housing design and must raise standards immediately’
- Sevenoaks sticks to its guns and refuses to withdraw draft Local Plan from examination
- Crunch time at Lydden Hill racing circuit
- End of the road for fracking in England?
- Happy New Year… and let’s all enjoy Kent!
- Happy Christmas and thank you for all your support!
- Water meadows campaign hits initial funding target in just nine days
- Choose your gifts wisely and Christmas really can give to the environment
- How we all stand to lose as our council-owned farms disappear
- The Green Belt: its value is obvious but should we be cherishing it a little more?
- Wincheap Water Meadows campaign gets off to a flyer… can you help it over the first hurdle?
- Legal challenge launched against plan to develop water meadows for car park extension
- CPRE has a new website… what do you think of it?
- As we’re sure you are aware, there is a general election this week. So what do the political hopefuls make of planning in our countryside?
- Clear and simple: our message for the next government, whoever it may be
- Wincheap Park & Ride Claim Bundle
- The campaign to save Wincheap Water Meadows in Canterbury from city council’s own park & ride scheme
- Nothing quite like it… the CPRE Kent AGM
- Kent Voice: read it here!
- Our countryside matters to those who vote. Politicians please take note!
- General election: what we would like to see from our candidates and their parties
- District chairmen’s reports… in their entirety!
- Don’t cave in to the drinks industry lobbyists! CPRE urges government to adopt ‘all-in’ deposit return system
- Passivhaus: the environmentally friendly way ahead for our homes
- Sevenoaks leader savages ‘huge abuse of the process’ after council advised to withdraw Local Plan from examination
- CPRE Kent AGM 2019
- Maidstone council under fire at meeting on proposed Lenham new town
- ‘It will destroy local communities and ruin residents’ lives. It must be stopped’… Chairman’s speech highlights appalling Tunbridge Wells council plans
- CPRE’s Green Clean… volunteers pick on litter (and aren’t we grateful for that!)
- You’re invited to airport campaign roadshow
- Court of Appeal decision on Pond Farm highlights importance of air quality in planning policy
- Solar-farm campaigners travel to Westminster but debate is postponed
- Tunbridge Wells Local Plan chops Green Belt to allow for housing development
- Application for Lower Thames Crossing DCO delayed by huge response to public consultation
- Hundreds more houses proposed for north Kent village
- Star Count attracts thousands as problem of light pollution shines bright
- Design approval for new villages at Ebbsfleet
- Judge backs Canterbury council in its desire to see hundreds of homes built east of the city
- Manston sale: what’s the way ahead now?
- Planners back 185 new homes on brownfield sites
- Former Kent chair Christine Drury honoured with CPRE Lifetime Achievement Award at national conference
- Massive increase in housebuilding: a developing tragedy for the Tunbridge Wells countryside
- Power plant approved despite impact on landscape
- The battle for Marden makes its mark far and wide
- Is the countryside your top priority? Then tell the next PM…
- Climate change rally in London: your chance to join thousands of others in getting the message to MPs
- Ayako draws on her skills to take Gravett Award
- Wildwood tour makes for a whole lot of furry fun for members, supporters and friends
- ‘Powerful lesson’ to politicians that our countryside matters… but Kent doesn’t witness dramatic change
- Thanet, child poverty and staggering hikes in house prices… what a mess!
- Climate change? No problem, apparently, in government push to further develop Thames estuary
- Change is afoot in the Ashford committee
- Campaigners seek help in air-quality challenge
- A billion! How much DRS could benefit local charities
- Cleve Hill: the battle against the country’s largest solar farm gets under way today
- Aviation and the environment: hear this free talk on your doorstep by a world expert
- Overwhelmed by the development onslaught? This piece sheds a little light on what’s going on…
- Here’s your latest Kent Voice… read it online!
- The legal eagle has landed… meet John Wotton, the new chairman of CPRE Kent
- Pond Farm: now we wait
- A city champion steps aside
- Setting up the planning system to fail
- Read the reports from our district chairmen… in full!
- Pond Farm… here we go again
- Local elections matter!
- Thanet goes big in its approval of greenfield development
- Quinn Estates targets site across the estuary
- A million new homes, two development corporations… and a very special friend to make it all happen
- Cleve Hill solar farm: it might not be too late to have your say
- Tom Fyans: Why we love brownfield
- Otterpool Park: planning application submitted
- Government chooses not to take over Thanet Local Plan: was this the ‘easy way out’?
- Your chance to hear CPRE deputy chief exec speak in Kent
- Threat to Western Heights and Farthingloe confirmed as developer looks to put scheme back before council
- Sorry day for Princes Parade as government declines to call in development scheme
- Relief and delight as massive scheme for Kent Downs AONB is turned down
- Green Belt: the development pressure ramps up again
- Eyes to the skies, the Star Count starts tomorrow
- Count the stars and see how lucky we are (or otherwise)
- How demand for second homes in Thanet highlights flawed housing policy
- Draft Environment Bill contains ‘significant unanswered questions’
- Manston DCO examination starts in Margate
- Cleve Hill: another reminder to register your interest. Pretty pleeease…
- Cleve Hill solar farm: can this really be allowed to happen?
- Thousands respond to Manston airport inquiry
- Recent consultation responses
- Remember, remember, the 20th of December…
- Cleve Hill solar farm plan: if you want to have a say, now is the time to register
- Lower Thames Crossing: is it only going to make things worse on our roads?
- We can’t rely solely on the car forever
- Fears for coastal environment as wind farm developer looks to run cables through Pegwell Bay
- The threat of a colossal solar farm at Cleve Hill: learn more this weekend
- Our director speaks on county radio about the menace of flytipping
- The Lower Thames Crossing… aiding and abetting a killer of thousands
- Sevenoaks: the sites that could be taking a housing hit
- We’ve got the power… the future for energy use in this country
- Read the full reports from our district chairmen
- Blue Boys Inn at Matfield… we’re moving towards the end game (for now!)
- Missed the AGM? There’s always next year…
- The killing of nature: Ecosystems and Biodiversity Demise, by Geoff Meaden
- Sevenoaks: where will the bricks and mortar be landing?
- How green is our Brexit?
- The new-look Kent Voice is out now… and you can read it here
- Christine Drury: final views from the chair
- Yahoo emails
- It’s autumn, so it must be the Autumn Conference…
- Ashford council told to drop 500 new properties from Local Plan
- Cockering Farm housing approval: CPRE Kent slams ‘lamentable’ consultation
- Lower Thames Crossing: consultation opens
- Annual General Meeting: Friday, November 9
- As plans for massive resort falter, what is the future for Swanscombe?
- Green Belt: not as safe as you might like to think
- Estuary growth commission points to a very crowded north Kent… and beyond
- Don’t forget, now is the time to comment on the Thanet Local Plan
- Curiouser and curiouser… why would anyone back this Thanet Parkway plan?
- Manston… airport DCO will be considered
- Council approves its own plans for Princes Parade but the fight might not be over
- Learn about the draft Sevenoaks Local Plan: you still have time to comment
- Sevenoaks draft Local Plan: a briefing and CPRE Kent observations
- Dr David Neden: a tribute to a CPRE champion
- New planning rule book: ‘a speculative developers’ charter’
- Goodwin Sands dredging: widespread concern over approval of DHB plan
- Beauty and the beast that stalks the lanes of Lenham
- This isn’t just about Kent: message from lorry park meeting is loud and clear
- Thanet’s draft Local Plan to go to public consultation
- Civic award pays tribute to Hilary Moorby
- Cleve Hill, plans for the UK’s largest solar farm… and our response
- The debacle that is passing for planning in Thanet… the next step
- And now villagers in Charing can also smile as Gladman quits appeal
- Gladman drops appeal in Brabourne Lees housing battle
- Thanet: a draft Local Plan could soon be upon us
- The Medway plan… some good, some bad?
- CPRE Kent handed Thurnham heritage award for Woodcut Farm bid
- Blean greenfield site saved (for now) in High Court win over government
- Lodge Hill: your last chance to speak out for this special site
- County council puts in planning application for Thanet Parkway station
- Thanet and its Local Plan… where are we now?
- Operation Stack: the CPRE Kent view and the chance for you to have a say
- Architecture student Jake makes good impression to pick up Gravett Award
- An unforgettable day in London
- Farthingloe: the developers are threatening its future again
- Little Densole Farm: council overturns officer recommendation and approves AONB development
- AONB and national park review… what might it mean for us?
- Hundreds turn out for Gravesham Green Belt meeting
- GDPR and CPRE Kent’s new privacy policy
- Water: we’re already struggling, so what of the future?
- Charing public inquiry: August date set for inspector’s decision
- Green Belt champion to address Gravesham meeting
- Join us for great day out in London
- CPRE Kent features in BBC TV feature on building in Green Belt
- NPPF consultation: forget the unwieldy title, this matters and you can influence it
- Charing inquiry ends… decision expected in July
- Is Gravesham Green Belt up for grabs?
- Word from our chairmen
- Public inquiry into Gladman plans for Charing resumes
- Istead Rise campaigners win battle to save land for community
- Pegwell Bay’s own defender of the realm, Eileen Randall
- The latest edition of Kent Voice springs to life
- Charing public inquiry takes a break until April
- Brilliant! CPRE campaign for deposit return scheme is going ahead
- Farthingloe court victory crucial in halting AONB development at Densole
- Meet the chairman of our revived Thanet committee
- CPRE Kent responds to PM’s housing speech
- We could build more than a million homes on brownfield land… so why aren’t we?
- Have your say on plans to expand Lydden Hill racing circuit
- Permission for judicial review on Woodcut Farm is refused in High Court
- Gladman drops appeal against Marden housing refusal
- Make your voice heard in Kent Voice!
- Inspector dismisses developer’s appeal against refusal of housing scheme
- Now we wait for Brabourne Lees decision
- There’s a storm over Thanet… so the time is right for CPRE’s district committee to meet
- So what now for Manston? And for Thanet?
- Infrastructure consultation: CPRE gives its views
- Government’s 25-year plan for our environment… what is the CPRE view?
- CPRE Kent team stands up for Brabourne Lees at public inquiry
- Take part in our lottery and win some money. Go on, you know you want to!
- Plans are back for a bigger Kent Science Park… oh, and 11,000 houses
- What a year for CPRE Kent! Happy Christmas from us all…
- Kent… so just how built-up is it?
- CPRE conference: thoughts from our man in Birmingham
- Farthingloe Valley saved as CPRE Kent wins battle in Supreme Court
- From cycling to the impact of the Lower Thames Crossing, these are lively times in Gravesham
- Join our lottery… everyone’s a winner!
- Woodcut Farm: CPRE Kent will continue the fight
- Inspector dismisses developer’s appeal against refusal of planning permission
- CPRE Kent challenges part of Maidstone Local Plan
- We still have to fight for Gravesham’s Green Belt, says district chairman
- CPRE Kent AGM 2017 minutes
- The AGM… you should have been there!
- ‘The worst possible place to put a solar farm’
- Will you join campaign to boost protection of our listed buildings?
- The AGM is this week! Please join us…
- Move quickly if you want to respond to housing consultation
- Blue Boys Inn: council pledges to take action
- Developer appeal quashed as importance of air quality is highlighted in court decision
- Green Belt has a new voice in Parliament
- Take action on this listed building now, CPRE urges council
- Manston: the story moves forward
- We’re back! CPRE has a Thanet committee again
- CPRE Kent welcomes Medway Council attack on proposed housing hike
- Have your say on proposed Hythe development
- We’re back in court again, this time battling for a site in north Kent
- Farthingloe appeal: decision expected by Christmas
- The menace of plastic around Kentish shores
- CPRE Kent in Supreme Court to defend AONB site
- Threats to our Green Belt double… in a year!
- CPRE Kent on TV to debate huge AONB development scheme
- Canterbury development challenge: your chance to help
- CPRE push for plastic bottles wins Gove backing
- AGM 2017
- Kent targeted to take huge housing hit
- Maidstone Local Plan re-think welcomed by CPRE Kent
- Right Homes, Right Places?
- CPRE supports requests for ‘call in’ of draft Maidstone Plan
- Biddenden Tractor Fest 2017
- Concerns over noise and air pollution at Manston Airport
- Protecting our heritage – new guide
- We’re recruiting!
- Our concerns about air quality
- Tunbridge Wells housing numbers too high
- Remembering Alan Holmes
- Airspace and runway concerns
- Protect our Green Belt
- Concern over potential cuts to train services
- Legal action challenges 4,000 homes in south Canterbury
- CPRE Manifesto for 2017 election
- Radical rethink needed on Thames crossing solution
- CPRE Kent response to Medway Local Plan
- Disappointment at Thames crossing announcement
- New Kent Voice out now!
- The end of the road?
- Thanet Parkway station consultation
- Freight Action Plan consultation
- Housing Minister speech praises CPRE
- 2017 Housing White Paper
- Giant phone masts rejected
- New year lunch at Leeds Castle
- Good news – appeal dismissed into 330 homes at Newington
- Happy New Year from CPRE Kent
- Merry Christmas to all our supporters
- Our fears over 4,000 homes approved for south Canterbury
- Communities help to plan low carbon future
- Motocross ban to protect species and prevent noise disturbance
- Landowners can help solve the rural housing crisis
- Legend of St Eanswythe: Graham Clarke’s poem
- AGM 2016
- Affordable home building at a 24 year low
- Otterpool Park
- Directors’ report and financial statements available
- Devastating impact of Heathrow expansion – our view
- Autumn/Winter Kent Voice out now
- Pond Farm, Newington Planning Inquiry
- 2016 AGM – Friday 18th November
- New design guide will help solar panels shine
- Dover AGM next weekend
- Thanks for your support on Farthingloe
- Victory as judges quash planning permission at Farthingloe
- Lorry park consultation response
- Safe under us?
- Celebrating 90 years of protecting the countryside
- Landscape Heritage?
- CPRE Kent protests about phone mast plans
- Looking forward to celebrating 90 years of CPRE at our garden party
- Lorry park should be “temporary”
- We need affordable rural homes
- Great weekend at Kent County Show
- Dismay at lorry park decision
- Otterpool Park – the wrong location and concern about water shortages
- Why we should buy locally produced food
- Night blight and dark skies – new maps launched
- Public support for plastic bag charge increases
- Meet Margaret, one of our volunteers
- Help CPRE Kent in volunteers’ week June 1-12 – it’s fun!
- New interactive map of threats to the Green Belt
- Shepway’s Otterpool Park – huge intrusion on landscape and villages
- Great news – we have been granted leave to appeal on Farthingloe
- Good news – 67 homes on inappropriate site appeal dismissed
- Planning reforms 2016 – write to your MP
- How can they harm our landscape and heritage?
- Housing and Planning Bill – some good news
- Aircraft noise – important debate
- Disappointment in response to community appeal petition
- Stour Park will harm landscape and heritage
- Fascinating outings for our members in 2016
- The housing crisis – a builder’s view
- Kent Voice spring edition out now
- Strongly opposed to damaging new crossing
- Concerns about Maidstone Local Plan
- M20 Junction 10a
- Brownfield sites developed six months faster than greenfield sites
- Last day to sign important petition – give communities a voice
- Lower Thames Crossing – thoughts from Gravesend
- Huge solar farm refused over landscape and heritage concerns
- Evidence on Operation Stack submitted to Transport Select Committee
- Lower Thames Crossing debate
- Regeneration through heritage
- Consultation on Proposed Changes to National Planning Policy
- Important meeting on Maidstone Local Plan
- Battle to save Farthingloe is of national significance
- New chair of Kent Historic Buildings Committee
- Goodbye and thank you from Brian Lloyd
- Proposed Lower Thames Crossing will cause huge damage
- Great news! Appeal against Waterside Park decision dismissed
- Developing new homes AND our heritage
- We question whether huge lorry park is the answer to Operation Stack
- Seeking leave to appeal Judicial Review decision on Farthingloe
- CPRE Kent welcomes new houses at Connaught Barracks
- Disappointment at judgement over building in AONB
- Lower Thames Crossing
- Concern over planning reforms
- Important Judicial Review
- Protect our dark skies
- Reaction to the Autumn Statement
- Helen Whately MP is new Vice President
- Test for aligning images
- Farmer Alarmer
- Awards to volunteers and staff at AGM 2015
- Kent is frack free
- Kent is frack free
- Why we are fighting to save the countryside at Farthingloe
- Unrealistic housing targets threaten countryside
- CPRE Kent objects to sites on greenfield land
- Gift membership – perfect for Christmas
- Dover committee AGM
- CPRE Kent opposes significant development at Lydden Race Circuit
- Autumn Winter 2015 Kent Voice
- CPRE Kent response to proposed planning reforms
- 2015 AGM – Friday 20th November
- Controversial Chislet windfarm plan shelved
- MPs asked to help protect the countryside
- 150 attend public meeting on solar farm
- Campaign to stop fast-track fracking decisions
- #ourgreenbelt
- Waterside Park – Success!
- Maidstone Council decides against development at Junction 8
- Canterbury Local Plan Examination
- Great to meet you all at the Kent County Show
- Astonishment as councillors now asked to support development at Junction 8
- Countryside Charter delivered to Downing Street
- Chislet windfarm plans shelved
- Legal challenge to damaging development at Farthingloe
- Warning of serious increase in air pollution
- Waterside Park closing statements
- Waterside Park Inquiry nears completion
- CPRE evidence to Waterside Park inquiry
- Snapshot of candidates’ views on CPRE manifesto
- Huge turnout at CPRE Kent election debate
- Spring/Summer 2015 Kent Voice out now
- Job Vacancies – Planner/Senior Planner
- Local Lists and Regeneration
- Community right of appeal called for
- Shepway Places and Policies Plan
- Nominate your Local Green Space
- Lodge Hill decision called in
- Thanet Local Plan Consultation
- Date set for Heritage Symposium at Turner Contemporary
- Meeting with Planning Minister
- Richborough line – we say place power lines underground
- CPRE Kent flooding conference attracts 100 delegates and widespread interest
- Submission to Airport Commission focuses on noise and tranquillity
- Emphasis on brownfield development welcomed in Swale Local Plan
- Fracking ban in important countryside areas welcomed
- Flooding: Fears, Facts and the Future – this week
- Stand Up for the Countryside
- Your Built Heritage – Update
- 580 homes would harm countryside
- Flooding: Fears, Facts and the Future
- Waterside Park Statement of Case
- Submission on Environmental Risks of Fracking
- Flooding one year on – are we better prepared now?
- Call for planning re-think on Western Heights and Farthingloe
- Christmas Cheer
- Flooding conference announced
- Campaign Against Gatwick Expansion
- Fracking debate
- Response to roads announcement
- Space for 70,000 homes on brownfield sites
- 2014 AGM
- Fracking debate tonight
- Annual General Meeting – this Friday
- Your Built Heritage
- London Green Belt map launched
- Gatwick Protest Meeting
- Airport Expansion consultation opens
- Discovery Park Plan Criticised
- Autumn Kent Voice out now
- Civic Voice Convention
- ‘Frack free zone’ called for in East Kent
- Have your say on Paramount Park
- Paramount Park consultation
- Standing up for Kent’s built heritage
- Musings on Junction 8
- Waterside Park Rejected
- Canterbury Local Plan Legally Unsound
- Council U-turn Criticised
- Plans for 450 homes “unjustified”
- Ebbsfleet UDC Welcomed
- #WasteOfSpace Campaign
- End to aviation at Manston?
- Farewell to Sir Donald
- Lodge Hill: protected habitats owed to a nightingale…
- No Time for TEA (Thames Estuary Airport!)
- Boris Island Blown Out of the Water
- Lower Thames Crossing
- New study maps shale and water
- Re-balancing the Renewables Obligation
- Yet another dash to frack…
- The dash to frack
- Homes at Ebbsfleet to be delivered at last, but where’s the detail?
- Sign The Charter
- Rural Rat Runs!
- Interim Report From Aviation Commission Fails To Deliver…
- Who cares about Dartford and Gravesham?
- A damp squib for the Thames Crossing announcement!
- Speak out NOW for the countryside, rural affordable homes and local decision making!
- The funny thing about planning…
- Growing energy and why it isn’t sustainable!
- Fracking coming to Kent?
- Ashford AGM!
- Local Plans–Why You Should Care!
- Mind The Cycling Gaps!
- No Gravett Award in 2013
- Hire our boardroom!
- A blot on the landscape
- The Battle for Western Heights and Farthingloe
- NEW PROPOSED LOWER THAMES CROSSING
- Manston
- The common appeal of walking…
- Night Flights at Manston
- The Stack Is Back!
- Research is great…
- Christmas in January
- Food vs. Energy?
- Darent Catchment Improvement Group
- Come rain or sunshine, water is important!
- Grave concerns over Maidstone planning documents
- Innovative Rennie building reprieved at Sheerness
- Ebbsfleet Regeneration Plans
- Dover Heritage Strategy Response
- Kent campaigner dubbed national countryside champion
- Environment Agency Supports Climate Change!
- Is Fracking Really Safe?
- Manston for sale!
- Water In Kent; Our View!
- Turbulence ahead!
- Cameron’s Flights Of Fancy!
- Growth without discussion…
- New Year….Old Issues!
- 2012; The year of drought?
- Say No to the LTC!
- Winter of discontent after Autumn Statement
- Hythe Lifeboat Stations Saved
- Faith in farming? You bet!
- Protected species under increased threat
- CPRE Kent AGM 2021
- Richards Test Page
- here’s the title
- Overwhelmed by the development onslaught?
- CPRE Kent on TV to discuss huge AONB development scheme
- CPRE asks for ‘call in’ of Maidstone Local Plan
- Farthingloe
- job vacancy
- Response to roads announcement
- Gryff Rhys Jones
- New maps show aquifers at risk from shale fracking
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