Devon CPRE is backing residents around the rural hamlet of Hawkchurch in East Devon, who are urgently raising a battle chest to resist two large Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) at two Public Inquiries, the first of which starts on Tuesday, 10 March.
Hawkchurch lies close to both the West Dorset and Somerset county boundaries and appears to be favoured by developers of power...
A green field in a small hamlet in the north Devon countryside is precisely the type of location that national and local planning policies say should be avoided for a travellers’ pitch, says the charity that campaigns to protect Devon’s countryside from inappropriate development.
Devon CPRE has objected to a revised planning application for two pitches with hardstanding, day rooms, a...
Devon CPRE, the environmental campaign charity, has issued a battle call to people across the UK to sign and share an online petition against what would be one of Europe’s largest solar arrays on more than 4 square miles of farmland near Holsworthy.
The charity is urging everyone to throw their weight behind its campaign to fend off the massive development at Holsworthy Beacon. It says...
Promoted by DEVON CPRE, the Devon Branch of the Campaign to Protect Rural England , in association with STOP BEACON SOLAR.
You are warmly invited to a PUBLIC MEETING AT HOLSWORTHY MEMORIAL HALL with the Rt Hon Sir Geoffrey Cox KC MP
Come and hear about the proposed development, tell us what you think about it, and what we should tell the government, who will make the decision on whether this goes ahead.
Email director@cpredevon.org.uk to book your place at the meeting.
Plans for a giant solar farm - one of the largest solar arrays in the UK and Europe - covering 2,700 acres of prime farmland in the North West of Devon must be headed off at the pass, says Devon CPRE. The campaigning charity is holding a public meeting with residents on 31 October and has set up an online petition to oppose the development, while it’s still in the pre-application stage....
Residents living near Alverdiscott in northern Devon, close to the proposed site of the largest solar and BESS scheme in Devon to date - 279 acres that would straddle two planning districts - have formed an action group to fight the scheme, following a presentation by Devon CPRE at a recent community meeting last week. The Bulworthy Solar Action Group met for the first time last week to decide...
Devon CPRE, the only charity that protects Devon’s countryside from inappropriate development, is holding a special workshop in Tiverton on 20 May to help town and parish councils achieve the best planning outcomes for their local community.
Experienced independent Planning Consultant Jo Widdecombe will guide local councillors through the complexities of the planning process and...
Devon CPRE, the only charity that protects Devon’s countryside from inappropriate development, is holding a special workshop in Tiverton on 20 May to help town and parish councils achieve the best planning outcomes for their local community.
Experienced independent Planning Consultant Jo Widdecombe will guide local councillors through the complexities of the planning process and explain what it’s important for them to know when they respond to applications.
Admission is free for member organisations (up to three people can attend from each member council) and for non-...
Local environmental charity Devon CPRE is putting its weight behind a Private Member’s Bill to make it compulsory for developers to put solar panels on the rooftops of new build housing, and it’s urging people in the South West to take action to ensure their MP helps get the legislation through Parliament.
MP Max Wilkinson has instigated the New Homes (Solar Generation) Bill, nicknamed...
Devon CPRE, the local branch of the countryside charity CPRE, has taken to the road this summer, encouraging people who care about the future of Devon’s countryside to get involved in its latest campaign and become Devon Defenders.
The charity has taken its rallying cry to three agricultural shows in different parts of the county- Dartmoor’s Chagford Show, the Yealmpton Show in the...
