CPRE National Office
A New Green Belt For Yeovil
Yeovil and the Yeovil area in South Somerset face unprecedented development pressures, particularly from new housing. We are campaigning for the creation of a Yeovil Green Belt to prevent further urban sprawl.
Wind turbines
Wind turbines are tall moving structures which inevitably have an impact over very large areas.
Membership form
CPRE membership forms for individuals, parish councils and organisations.
You can help save the countryside from as little as £3 per month
The most effective way for you to help protect the countryside is to become a member of CPRE. We’re delighted that you want to join us. We all need the countryside – whether it’s for fresh air, delicious local produce, beautiful landscapes, or vibrant towns and villages – the countryside is invaluable. By joining CPRE, you are helping to ensure that a beautiful living countryside thrives for generations to come.
Accessibility
We want our website to be accessible as possible. To make our website easy to view, we've designed it in accordance with guidelines from the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
Design and ease of use
We are always looking for ways to improve our website and make it easier to use.
Helpful features:
- Using meaningful ALT text for all images to provide descriptive text
- Using descriptive hyperlink text
- Avoiding the use of frames, which are difficult for special browsers to interpret
- Using an easy to read non-serif font type
- We are also working hard to make sure our site has useful content that is laid out in an easy-to-navigate way
Making your text bigger
You can easily make the text bigger in your web browser by choosing 'view' from your web browser and then choosing to either zoom in your page view or choosing a larger font size.
Adobe Acobat PDF files
Many of publications and documents are made available in PDF format. Adobe Acrobat Reader is freely available from www.adobe.com.
2017 annual report
Read our annual report with news of our successes, campaigns and efforts during 2017.
District groups
Somerset CPRE has active district groups in Mendip, and Sedgemoor. South Somerset, Taunton Deane and West Somerset are dormant at present but if you would like to help get these groups going, we would love to hear from you!
How we work
We’re an environmental charity, with over 200 local groups, a branch in every county and 55,000 members, and supporters – including more than 2,000 affiliated parish councils.
Here in Somerset, we have around 750 members and a small team of volunteers who work hard to try to stand up for our countryside.
CPRE fights for a better future for England’s countryside
CPRE Somerset fights for a better future for the English countryside. We cover the administrative county of Somerset and our volunteers work hard to protect, shape and enhance a beautiful, thriving countryside for everyone to value and enjoy. We have around 700 members who are united in their love for Somerset’s landscapes and rural communities. Together we stand up for the countryside, so it can continue to sustain, enchant and inspire future generations.
Our vision for the countryside
Unlike many environmental charities, CPRE has no vested interests – we own no land, rely solely on donations and grants, and are politically independent. We make decisions with the head not the heart, as much as we love the countryside, and we are possibly the only green group which has a completely holistic approach. Planning, in particular, is all about looking at the bigger picture, and our wide remit means we have to consider the whole of the country – rural and urban – when creating policy.
