Category: Rural Matters

The Rural Matters section is a special section sponsored and reserved for the local CPRE.

The CPRE or Campaign to Protect Rural England is a charity set up to help protect the rural countryside.

In this section you will find articles mainly by Rupert Hardy, Chairman, North Dorset CPRE. There are ocaisonally guest writers but always from the CPRE.

We like that the subject matter is wide and varied, from dark skies, to planning, hedgerow maintenance to Fingerposts.

Always something new and always interesting to read. The CPRE’s main aim is to help make the countryside a better place for us all to live.

Rural Matters

How Covid is Changing The North Dorset Economy

Before Covid19 swept the globe, concern about the environment had reached tipping point. Now, as a radical shift to new sectors of the economy...

8 October 2020

Rural Matters

Government’s Planning Reforms Will Have Devastating Effect on Dorset

Last month the Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick, threatened to unleash dramatic changes to the planning system in a White Paper. A White Paper may...

8 September 2020

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Unstoppable – Stur girls pack a punch!

15 February 20250

In early February, two young boxers from Sturminster Newton Boxing Club headed to Rotherham for the England Boxing National Youth Championships 2025. Ruby White,...

Local History

Spetisbury | Then & Now

20 February 20250

Step back in time with our ‘Then and Now’ feature, where vintage postcards from the Barry Cuff Collection meet modern-day reality. Explore the past...