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For eighty years CPRE has worked at National, Regional and County level to represent everyone concerned to maintain the beauty of the countryside.
West Midlands CPRE is one of nine CPRE Regional Groups which supports both local branches and our national office as they seek to influence policies which affect the countryside and wider environment.
In the past we have worked to ensure and that regional policies on transport, economics, housing and rural policy do not spoil the 80% of our region which is rural.
With the abolition of many Regional Bodies by the new Government and the setting up of new arrangements, such as Local Enterprise Partnerships, we are reviewing our operations to ensure we are targeting our effort where it can be most effective.
We work in co-operation with other like-minded groups through the West Midlands Regional Sustainability Forum.
West Midlands CPRE is supported by one full time Regional Policy Officer
and a band of dedicated volunteers. Click here to see
our team leaders.
You can contact us if you
would like further information about what we do or if you would like to
help us.
If you have a more local problem you can contact one of the five West
Midlands County Branches.
Click here for a map of the region (Word file),
Otherwise
see the table below -
Our
Team
Chairman, Jerry Birkbeck
Jerry joined us in May 2011. He is a Chartered Town Planner and Landscape Architect. He worked for Local Government in Staffordshire, London and Warwickshire for over 35 years. He then worked for himself as a Landscape Planner until April 2011 when he retired. He has considerable experience of working with communities on a range of projects including countryside recreation and enhancement and in developing the Warwickshire Landscapes Guidelines to conserve and enhance the character and diversity of local landscapes. He has a diversity of interests that include sport, industrial archaeology, steam railways, early MG cars and acting.
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Vice
Chairman, Richard Wise
Richard is currently vice chair
of the Hereford Nature Trust. Before that he was Professor of Clinical
Microbiology in Birmingham working on “super-bugs”. He
was an advisor to the House of Lords. He has knowledge of food production.
He enjoys walking in the countryside and observing nature in the raw.
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West Midlands
Policy Officer, Gerald Kells -
Gerald has been Regional Policy Officer with CPRE since 2001. Before
that he had extensive experience of environmental campaigning in the
region. He is a Member of the Regional Assembly and Vice Chairman
of the Regional Transport Partnership. He also enjoys writing and
walking the hills.
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