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.

 

Dorset Farming

The forgotten art of hedgerow life cycles

With new incentives for sustainable farming, hedgerows are crucial – Andrew Livingston talks to hedge expert John Calder ‘Hedges are the single most important ecological...
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Local History

Badbury Rings: King Arthur’s greatest victory?

North Dorset CPRE’s Rupert Hardy travels through the enigmatic past of the Iron Age fort and its mythical connection to King Arthur Badbury Rings, the...
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Property law and finance

Is it consistent with policy?

Secretary of State calls in controversial plan for 490 homes outside Blandford – to the delight of North Dorset CPRE Felicity Buchan, Minister for Housing...
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Dorset community news

Motcombe Community Shop sails on

A long-time supporter (and judge) of Dorset’s village shops, North Dorset CPRE chairman Rupert Hardy visits Motcombe’s thriving community store COVID was kind to village...
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Rural Matters

Local action to Stop the Drop

From roadside rubbish to recycling innovations, Rupert Hardy takes a look at the seemingly neverending battle against litter in the UK Littering in Britain is...
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Dorset community news

Sam Peters on rugby’s dangerous evolution and Rob Nolan’s stellar photography

Sam Peters, former rugby correspondent at the Mail On Sunday and The Sunday Times and author of Concussed, talks to Terry about the gathering...
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