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Category: Rural Matters

The Rural Matters section is a special section sponsored and reserved for the local CPRE.

The CPRE or Campaign to Protect Rural England is a charity set up to help protect the rural countryside.

In this section you will find articles mainly by Rupert Hardy, Chairman, North Dorset CPRE. There are ocaisonally guest writers but always from the CPRE.

We like that the subject matter is wide and varied, from dark skies, to planning, hedgerow maintenance to Fingerposts.

Always something new and always interesting to read. The CPRE’s main aim is to help make the countryside a better place for us all to live.

 

Local History

The Dorset Cursus: the biggest Neolithic monument in Britain

Exploring Britain’s largest Neolithic monument, stretching across six miles of Cranborne Chase, with Dorset CPRE’s Rupert Hardy Built around 3,300 BC – predating Stonehenge by...
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Dorset community news

Why Dorset must push back

Rupert Hardy from North Dorset CPRE explains why Dorset’s Local Plan Consultation matters – and how best to stop some of the worst housing...
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Dorset community news

A village shop in spirit – a service station in scale

North Dorset CPRE’s Rupert Hardy visits Hawtree & Sons Riverside Garage – the family business that’s busily defining rural retail After the brief COVID-era reprieve,...
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Rural Matters

Can Dorset do it?

In June, Dorset CPRE hosted a planning conference on Net Zero – North Dorset chairman Rupert Hardy reports on the discussions The goal of achieving...
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Rural Matters

The wrong place

As solar farms creep across our farmland, CPRE’s Rupert Hardy asks why rooftop panels are still overlooked in the rush to meet clean energy...
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Local History

Sun gods over the Blackmore Vale

CPRE’s Dark Skies adviser Richard Miles delves into the past to discover some remarkable connections hidden in our local landscape You may be surprised to...
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