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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.

 

Rural Matters

THE IMPORTANCE OF HEDGEROWS

In 2000 our future CPRE President, Bill Bryson, wrote: “For well over a thousand years hedgerows have been a defining attribute of rural England,...
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Rural Matters

Fingerposts: Dorset Icons

Dorset’s fingerposts are an iconic sight; the old road signs featuring a white or occasionally red metal roundel, with arms, known as fingers, pointing...
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Rural Matters

LOCKDOWN LITTER PICKING

With fewer visitors to the countryside in the time of Covid, it was hoped that there would be an equivalent reduction in the amount...
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Rural Matters

Why You Should Object To Giant Solar Farm In Blackmore Vale

BSR Energy have submitted a planning application to cover 190 acres of productive farmland with giant solar power station to be sited between Hazelbury...
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Rural Matters

PUBS AND VILLAGE SHOPS: THE BEATING HEARTS OF OUR RURAL COMMUNITIES

Dorset rural communities are lucky to have a pub or a village shop, but many have neither. With the Lockdown expected to end soon...
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FAILINGS OF DORSET’S LOCAL PLAN (Part 2)

Last month we wrote about the failings of Dorset Council’s (DC) draft Local Plan (LP) and its consultation process, but we could have said...
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