Press Releases

 

30/08/10 WEST MIDLANDS  HEDGEROWS: don’t cut them out!
08/04/10 MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOT JUST MORE HOUSING
15/03/10

OUR ELECTION MANIFESTO

and Our Manifesto Press Release
10/03/10 HIGH SPEED RAIL - Announcement imminent
21/12/09

PLANNING FOR HOUSING IN THE WEST MIDLANDS MUST NOT LOCK US INTO ENVIRONMENTALLY DAMAGING DECISIONS
29/09/09

HOUSING FIGURES
Report on Phase 2 of the Review of Regional Spatial Strategy
11/08/09 GOOD NEWS FOR SHROPSHIRE'S COUNTRYSIDE. BAD NEWS FOR SHREWSBURY
22/07/09 CAMPAIGNERS FIGHT NEW ROAD BUILDING IN WEST MIDLANDS
24/06/09 SHROPSHIRE'S COUNTRYSIDE IS TOO VALUABLE TO BE SACRIFICED FOR STATISTICAL DREAMS
24/06/09 HEREFORDSHIRE'S COUNTRYSIDE IS TOO VALUABLE TO BE SACRIFICED FOR STATISTICAL DREAMS
19/06/09

TODAY IS D-DAY FOR WORCESTERSHIRE
16/06/09 STAFFORDSHIRE COULD BE SWAMPED WITH HOUSING

04/06/09 ALARM BELLS FOR COVENTRY & WARWICKSHIRE'S COUNTRYSIDE
02/06/09 GREEN BELT ONSLAUGHT
27/05/09 TRANSPORT MUST TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE
20/05/09 MEGADEPOT WAREHOUSES MUST NOT BLIGHT THE WEST MIDLANDS COUNTRYSIDE
28/04/09 THE RIGHT HOUSES IN THE RIGHT PLACES, COUNTRYSIDE CAMPAIGNERS TELL GOVERNMENT
16/04/09 NEW REGIONAL CHAIRMAN - Welcome to Bryan McGinity
16/01/09

CPRE WELCOMES DROPPING OF M6 WIDENING BUT CALLS FOR LONGER TERM TRAFFIC REDUCTION
15/01/09 ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT – RURAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN THE WEST MIDLANDS
08/12/08 PLANNERS DITCH URBAN REGENERATION FOR RURAL LAND GRAB : Response to consultation on Regional Strategy
27/11/08 TIME TO ACT ON RURAL TRANSPORT IN THE WEST MIDLANDS : Response to Government consultation
09/07/08 NIGHTMARE HOUSING SCENARIO: Up to 446,00 new houses in the West Midlands in the next twenty years?
12/06/08 RURAL WEST MIDLANDS STILL LET DOWN BY POOR PUBLIC TRANSPORT: CPRE launches Major Report on Rural Accessibility in West Midlands
03/06/08 TURN GREEN BELT PROMISES INTO REALITY – Countryside Campaigners tell Regional Assembly (Word)
16/04/08 STOP THE DROP: Litter Campaign, West Midlands Press Release (Word)
16/04/08 STOP THE DROP: Litter Campaign, Link to National Office Press Release
13/04/08 WAREHOUSING (Word)
18/01/08 WEST MIDLANDS HOUSING STAMPEDE - TIME FOR A REALITY CHECK (Word)
08/01/08 Heavy Hand of Government Threatens Housing Disaster in West Midlands (Word)
26/09/07 BIA SHOULD DROP SECOND RUNWAY FOR GOOD AND FACE UP TO CLIMATE CHANGE (Word)
21/09/07

REGIONAL ASSEMBLY MUST NOT CAVE IN ON HOUSING (Word)
05/09/07 The West Midlands' Undisturbed Countryside Could be Lost Within a Lifetime
and West Midlands Intrusion Maps 1960s, 1990s, 2007 (Word)
28/08/07 West Midlands Housing Plans will Undermine Urban Revival (Word)
17/08/07 West Midlands Housing Boom (Word)
10/07/07 West Midlands Green Belt Essential to Manage Housing Development (Word)
02/07/07 West Midland Green Belt Needs a Shot in the Arm (Word)

plus Green Belt Report - (pdf 3.73 Mb)
06/06/07 West Midlands Assembly Must Resist Excessive Housing in the Countryside (Word)

30/05/07 Experts Appointed to Review Business Case for M6 (Word)
05/03/07 County Maps of Tranquillity in the West Midlands are Unveiled (Word)
plus Tranquillity Maps on our National CPRE website
02/03/07 West Midlands Region at a Cross-Roads for the Countryside (Word)
08/01/07

The Great Greenfield Takeaway (Word)
plus Greenfield Takeaway Map (pdf)

05/01/07 Congestion Charge (Word)
06/12/06 Barker Report - Barker up the Wrong Tree (Word)
24/11/06

Options for Development (Word)
01/08/06

Greenfield Housing Bonanza (Word)
21/07/06 Daft M6 Proposal Scrapped(Word)
06/07/06 Call for High Quality Housing Design (Word)
12/05/06 Mobile Motorway Adverts (Word)
21/4/06 Motorways Encourage Development (Word)
31/3/06 Birmingham Airport (Word)
14/3/06 Proposals for New Housing (Word)