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Out now: CPRE South East eBulletin

Imogen Haig
By Imogen Haig
23 June 2020

The June 2020 Issue of the independently compiled and written CPRE South East eBulletin is now out, covering news from the region. Topics include:

  • Calls for a Green Legacy following lockdown as strong evidence of a surge in the appreciation of access to green spaces for people’s health and wellbeing and a demonstrable desire to protect and enhance these spaces following lockdown
  • Radical Planning Reform proposals by the Housing Secretary which could leave many communities at risk from inappropriate housing developments, reduced or no affordable housing, and poorly designed homes
  • The Impact of Covid-19 on emissions, planning, and a call for a green-led economic recovery across all sectors
  • New energy projects in the South East
  • South East Local Plan controversies – including the pause into Bracknell Forest Council’s local plan, containing the proposal for a new inappropriate and large-scale housing development on Green Belt land at Jealott’s Hill which CPRE Berkshire is campaigning hard against.
  • Regional Round Up – including Berkshire news from Welford and Wickham, Shinfield, Finchampstead, Wokingham, and White Waltham.
  • ‘Mend the Gap’ – news of the joint project between the North Wessex Downs and Chilterns AONBs, both damaged by electrification of the Great Western Railway. The £3.75m programme is funded by Network Rail.
  • A new report on significant research in support of a new Green Belt in the countryside north of the urban centres in South Hampshire
  • News about the progress of the new Agriculture and Environment Bills through parliament
  • A housing and planning section, which notes that Reading Borough Council has the second highest housing scheme approval rate in the south east, at 80%
  • News on environment, energy and resources plans that may impact the region
  • Evidence that new Garden Communities proposed by central government are designed around car-led lifestyles, located too far from existing transport hubs, meaning that sustainable transport is relegated to the bottom of the agenda
  • Road building in the law Courts – specifically in relation to increases in air pollution
  • High Speed 2 – construction, planning, and protest news
  • An extension of planning permissions until April 2021, if it was due to lapse between March and December 2020.

You can read the full bulletin here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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