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Hedgerows Heroes Phase 3 – another successful year

The third year of CPRE’s Hedgerow Heroes project has come to a close, with planting and restoration targets exceeded and thousands of volunteers actively making a difference in their community for nature and climate.  Read more at https://www.cpre.org.uk/news/community-action-and-hedgerow-success-with-hedgerow-heroes-phase-3/


Save our chalk streams – petition to the Environment Agency

The Federation of Cambridge Residents Associations (FeCRA) has started this petition, which reflects the concern of local residents and experts that Cambridge will soon run out of water.  For more information and to sign the petition go to https://chng.it/nWNnBTq9fM. You can read more about the importance of chalk streams at


Opposition to development halves if new homes are affordable, poll finds

New polling by YouGov commissioned by CPRE has revealed that people are half as likely to oppose new housing in their local area if the homes were affordable to people on average local incomes.

Whereas 41% said they did not want to see the construction of more homes close to where they live, that proportion fell to 20% if those homes were locally affordable.  Read more at


BT’s move to digital voice technology and the effect on rural dwellers – an update

Vintage landline telephone

In September 2023 we outlined our concerns regarding the move by BT and other providers to replace the old copper wire telephone system with digital voice technology (also known as Voice over Internet Protocol – VoIP). We’re revisiting this subject as we’ve become aware of other…


East West Rail

Bedford Station by M J Richardson

This month East West Rail will be holding a series of drop-in events, where you can find out more information about how the statutory consultation process works ahead of the first stage being launched in June.

We would encourage people to attend an event and…