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[[link removed]]Hi John

As this year grows to a close, I want to thank you for the support you’ve given
to CPRE this year and remind us all of some of the challenges faced and
successes celebrated. And it’s thanks to your support that we have achieved
those campaign successes
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We started the year with a big win for our planning campaign after the government backed down
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engagement at its heart’.

There was also another important U-turn in the autumn with prime minister Rishi
Sunak’s decision to re-instate the fracking moratorium after more than 80,000
people signed our petition for a re-think. And we finished the year with a
resounding victory when it was announced communities would have more say on local housing targets
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year, as the Levelling Up Bill goes through parliament.

A particularly satisfying achievement for CPRE was seeing the impact of a
campaign won more than a decade ago and pioneered by the CPRE local group in
South Yorkshire and the Peak District, to put power lines underground
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the will is there, we can protect our beautiful countryside and support energy
infrastructure.



Some of our most cheering gatherings this year have been around our hedgerow
work. We invited the then environment secretary George Eustice to join us at
CPRE Oxfordshire’s hedgelaying project in Watlington and now have 82 MPs signed
up to be hedgerow heroes supporting our call for the government to set a target
to increase our hedgerow network by 40% by 2050.

Twelve of our local groups have won funding to carry out planting and
restoration projects, as well as working with their communities to spread the
word on the value of hedgerows. They and many others joined with us to celebrate
National Hedgerow Week in October with nearly 50,000 of you signing our petition
hedgerow petition that was delivered to Defra.

We also took the chance to create an exhibition in the Houses of Parliament for
MPs to find out more about our work. And just this month we launched our farmers survey on hedgerows
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hedgerows are important to them and their business and wanting more support to
manage them.

We couldn’t have achieved any of this without the backing of dedicated
campaigners, like you. Thank you for all you do.

I know that times are hard right now, but if you are in a position to help,
please could you consider giving a gift today to further support our work
towards a thriving countryside.

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[[link removed]]And, finally, may I wish you all the very best for this festive season and for
2023.

With best wishes,

Tom

Tom Fyans
Interim Chief Executive | CPRE The countryside charity

PS: A donation today
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