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

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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Dorset’s master of strings

13 January 20250

Dorset luthier Jeremy Walsh on listening to the wood, a double bass jigsaw, holding a $15m Stradivarius and Friday night rave music In his self-built...

Blackmore Vale magazine death notices

Norman Holt

15 January 20250

13.07.31 - 31.12.24 Peacefully at his home on 31st December 2024, aged 93. Beloved husband of the late Rachael, much loved Dad, Grandpa, Great Grandpa,...