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The Ouse Washes bank raising works finished in October 2022. Construction started in 2017 and the work has taken six years to complete.  For a summary of the project please see the final edition of the Ouse Washes Works newsletter.

"Building site: Cambridge UK" by Prisoner 5413 is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.

The government has set out new measures in the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill which gives communities more say on…

We attended the Environment Agency’s (EA) Drought update briefing on 11^th November.  This meeting discussed the latest water situation reports and heard about the Environment Agency’s expectations for winter recharge. It was noted that the region has benefitted from recent rainfall and in some catchments we may be beginning to see the first signs of groundwater recharge.  The EA will…

Lawrence Wragg receiving the long service award 2015

It is with great sadness that we announce that one of Cambridgeshire’s leading countryside campaigners and a stalwart CPRE supporter, Lawrence Wragg, has died at the age of 78.

Lawrence…

National and local CPRE staff head towards Defra (Copyright Jess Hurd)

A petition signed by almost 50,000 supporters has been handed to Edward Barker, Defra’s Director of Natural…