Do you have a hedgerow deserving of an award?!
CPRE Cheshire/Cheshire Landscape Trust's 2012 Hedgerow Award Scheme has now been launched. The scheme is designed to encourage all those with land to look after their hedgerows and their trees, to replace, where practical, barbed wire fencing with new plantings, to ‘gap up’ where gaps exist and plant saplings in such gaps or encourage stool growth by coppicing. The award scheme is open to anyone who has a fieldside hedge; you do not have to be a farmer, but garden hedges are not eligible. For an entry form and full details, please follow the link below.
2012 Hedgerow Seminar takes place at Reaseheath College
CPRE Cheshire organised a training day for Cheshire residents involved in the maintenance and planting of hedgerows recently, on behalf of the Cheshire Hedgerow Network. After a morning of talks on hedgerows and ecology, with keynote speaker Andrew Gouldstone from the RSPB talking on the best management of hedges for wildlife, we had a walk out in the afternoon to see Reaseheath College's award winning hedgerow.
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Second Planning seminar takes place
The second CPRE Cheshire/Cheshire Association of Local Councils training day was held in Middlewich on March 30th, covering Neighbourhood Planning, the National Planning Policy Framework, responding to planning applications and to consultations on policy development. If you missed the session, follow the link below to find out how you can learn more about the planning system and have your say.
Coppice scheme gets off to a flying start.
Year 5 children at Kingsmead Primary School got their hands dirty today, planting the first of CPRE's Coppices for Schools in the school grounds. Over the next two weeks a further two coppices are set to be planted, with pupils doing the hard work!
It's now easier than ever to protect Cheshire's countryside!
You can now join CPRE Cheshire online via our new direct debit facility - so if you have been meaning to join us but kept forgetting to complete and return the form, you can now join online and pop the form into the recycle bin (or pass it on to an interested friend!). Follow the link below to find out more.
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Another chance to take part in the 2012 star count.
CPRE and the Campaign for Dark Skies are working together again to engage members of the public in a national experiment to find out how much light pollution there is across England. The second 2012 star count week runs from 20th - 26th February, and if you would like to take part follow the link below to find out what to do.
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Macclesfield Greenbelt - good news!
CPRE has been working with a residents' group in Alderley Edge and Nether Alderley who are fighting an application to build a 17-acre garden centre on Green Belt land. The application was withdrawn prior to the public inquiry due to take place on 5th January which is a testament to the hard work volunteers have put in campaigning against this inappropriate development!
Wind Farm application - Eaton
Cornwall Light and Power decided against submitting a planning application for a wind farm at Oxheys Farm in Eaton. Good news for local campaigners who have worked so hard to fight this proposal! For more information on CPRE's policy on wind turbines please click here.
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