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The latest issue of our newsletter is available to download here.

In this issue:

• We celebrate a local campaign win
• We update you on the Ox-Cam Arc
• Find out about the Rooftop Renewables campaign
• Find out how to protect our precious green spaces

And…

Burning grass and trees by Stephen Mitchell

The Met Office fire severity index shows that the wildfire risk has been raised to 'very high' over much of England and parts of Wales, including Cambridgeshire and Peterborough.

The current…

A new CPRE report shows how some big housing developers are still exploiting a loophole that enables them to appeal against refusal of planning permission, even in our most iconic landscapes.

CPRE is urgently calling for proposed changes to the planning rules that would stop this happening. The proposed change to the National Policy Planning Framework in last December’s consultation would…

EWR published a route update on 26 May.  More information about the proposals, including details of drop-in events being held in June and July, can be found at https://eastwestrail.co.uk/routeupdate

"Three pigeons on a roof" by Dunnock_D is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0

CPRE is running a campaign to urge the government to fully realise the potential of solar on rooftops. A major new CPRE report has found that over half the solar panels needed…