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

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...

Editorial team - 8 May 2021

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...

Editorial team - 8 April 2021

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...

Editorial team - 8 March 2021

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...

Editorial team - 8 February 2021

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...

Editorial team - 8 January 2021

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...

Editorial team - 8 December 2020

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Bucked in the Yarn

Editorial team - 11 September 20240

Three small Somerset villages had a huge impact on global exploration and trade – Rachael Rowe talks to Professor Terry Stevens “Nothing much ever happened...