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

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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Rural Matters

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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Rural Matters

THE FAILINGS OF DORSET’S LOCAL PLAN

Many people will be aware that Dorset Council (DC) has initiated the consultation process for its new Local Plan (LP), and this will run...
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Rural Matters

Locking Down and Looking Up

Not only does the Campaign to Protect Rural England concern itself about countryside and the communities who live there but is also involved in...
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Rural Matters

Why You Should Oppose 600 Home Development in North Blandford

Last week Blandford Town Council voted narrowly against a major new housing development of 600 dwellings sited north of the bypass, with up to...
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Rural Matters

The Blackmore Vale and future farm support

For many months we have all been hearing from government that post-Brexit farm support systems under the Common Agricultural Policy will be replaced by...
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