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Annual Review 2020 Standing up for Your Countryside ANNUAL REVIEW 2019/2020 www.cpreherts.org.uk PRESIDENT’S WELCOME TO OUR ANNUAL REVIEW Looking back to 2019, We objected in previous years to plans put forward by there were two events that Stevenage Borough and by East Hertfordshire District caught my attention. Council as they both contained proposals to remove land from the Green Belt and to set aside these sites First, the local elections in for house building. The Secretary of State at the May of last year brought Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local change to the political Government called in the plans but eventually control of several of the approved them. Then the two councils adopted local authorities in the them. Now we are campaigning to ensure that high county. quality homes are built. Change there has been, So we do ask members to fight for the right homes to not everywhere, but, as is be built in the right places always with the reported elsewhere, the preservation of the Green Belt. I urge all members to numbers of homes and the Green Belt sites have been join us in giving their views to MPs and Councillors. looked at anew. In a number of cases reductions have been made or, at least are proposed. Despite the lockdown I am glad and thankful that our staff and active volunteers have never stopped. Secondly, we campaigned strongly against the local Everybody is working from home and using emails, plans, challenging the assumptions underpinning the telephone and video technology. them and calling for the protection given to the Green Belt in public policy to be respected. A BACKWARD VIEW FROM THE CHAIR 2019, a whole year of the old normal: when shall we see the new normal I wonder? The first half of 2019 was when the national charity, then called Campaign for the Protection of Rural England, was working with the local CPREs, then called county branches, to develop and agree a strategy for the national charity for the time up un- til its centenary in 2026. This activity went on in parallel with work to put in place new branding, including the logo that we use in the Annual Review. Both the strategy and the new branding emphasise the positive nature of what we do. Many academic studies and surveys have found that getting out into the country- side, returning to nature, even in one’s own back garden or local park or green space is good for us. It makes us feel better: it puts a smile on our faces and we feel less stressed. That depends of course on there being countryside left for us to get out in- to. CPRE the national charity was one of the groups that was influential in persuading the Government in the late 1930’s to pass a law that allowed local authorities around London to designate land that was not to be developed. This was the start of the Metropolitan Green Belt. It was the Atlee government that passed the 1947 Town and Country Planning Act that mandated these councils to designate land for protection against development. Howev- er, it wasn’t until 1955 that the Green Belt came fully into position. That history was all about protecting the countryside. “Protection” remains a key objective and the prime, if not the single, activity that most of the local, county CPREs engage in. For us, our planning work is very important. Sev- en of the ten local authorities in the county are made up of land, outside of the major towns, that is all in the Green Belt. However, our annual Awards programme , previously Rural Living Awards, is also of major importance to us as the main way in which we celebrate the countryside and the people living in or accessing it. So, back to the first half of 2019, reconciling the positivism of the proposed new strategy and branding and the fo- cus on protection of the countryside, widely seen as a defensive and technical if not obscure activity, took up quite a bit of time. By June though the debates were all over and the strategy and branding were formally announced and adopted at the national charity’s Annual Conference that month. (The national charity holds a two day annual event that all of the local (county) CPREs are invited to as full participants.) The new strategy has four main headings: Promote Rural Life, Connect People and Countryside, Empower Commu- nities and Grow Our Capacity. We, CPRE Hertfordshire, have adopted these as our strategic aims. The first two aims are supported by our annual Awards. We seek nominations from or about groups and individuals who work to improve the environment or make life better in their local communities. In 2019 we presented awards to a community shop, a community gardening group that focuses on those with learning disabilities and mental health needs , a group that maintains and enhances a historic orchard and an individual who made safer a rural area for the benefit of the local community. Page 2 CPRE Hertfordshire Annual Review 2020 www.cpreherts.org.uk Standing Up for Your Countryside The third aim, Empowering Communities, is important to us. Our work focuses on the Local Plans put forward by the local authorities and which are subject to Examination in Public by a Planning Inspector and on individual plan- ning applications which propose inappropriate development, usually in the Green Belt or the countryside immedi- ately beyond it. We work with local campaign groups about these plans and planning applications. Local authorities respond to local voters and so campaign groups can change minds, especially in election years. The fourth aim, “Grow our capacity”, is inward focused but very important. For example, the trustees of CPRE Hertfordshire have six year terms of office. Two will retire at the AGM this year. So, we are on the lookout for po- tential trustees all of the time. Indeed, if you know of someone, yourself included, who would like to know more about being a trustee please let us know. Similarly, we are seeking more volunteers. Our existing staff and volunteers are all working from home, and very effectively too. Taking on someone new when we can only do virtual or socially-distanced interviewing and training presents challenges but these are not insurmountable. So yet again, if you know of someone, yourself included, who loves the countryside and is interested in volunteering with us please let us know. Whilst thinking about volunteers, a key current volunteer, David Irving, who is a former and still very formidable planning professional, leaves us at the end of this year. All of us will miss him. I suspect plenty of planning officers in local authorities will miss him too. David’s planning application objection letters do their jobs for them. I wish him well. I hope that we can find someone, or perhaps it will have to be two or more, given David’s firepower, to take his place. We provided speakers for a range of local and community groups during the year, with Elizabeth Hamilton and Kev- in FitzGerald taking the lead. These talks continued up to the lockdown and will resume when group meetings can safely take place in-person once more. We are also exploring the feasibility of hosting these talks virtually, online. Liz writes for Hertfordshire Life each month as well, with a fascinating piece about wildflower books, known as “floras”, in the June issue. We remain active on social media, with postings on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. We cover a wide range of subjects, all about the countryside but with more than a bit of flavour of the times at present. It is impossible to say when the Welwyn office will reopen. For the time being, if you want to contact us, please DO NOT telephone. Send us an email at [email protected]. We monitor this every working day and we will re- spond, especially if you enquire about how to send us some money! Talking of emails, I encourage all of our members who have an email address to let us send our news and news- letters by this medium. We can let you know about what is happening near you, but only by email. We can ask for your help, which we do occasionally, only by email. It is quick and a lot easier and cheaper for us, as a charity, to use email instead of post. Please help us to keep up our efforts to celebrate and protect Hertfordshire’s countryside and the people living in and accessing that countryside. Richard Bullen ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, Saturday 12 September, 3.00pm We are following advice from the Charity Commission by holding our Annual General Meeting (AGM) this year using videoconferencing technology. The Trustees passed a resolution to this effect at their most recent meeting. Therefore, we will hold our AGM this year on Saturday 12 September 2020 at 3pm and it will be held virtually, by online videoconference using Zoom. The exact format will be determined closer to the meeting date. Any member wishing to attend the AGM this year will need to register with us in advance. To do this, you must send an email with “AGM” in the subject line and the full name of each member wishing to attend in the body of the email, to [email protected] as soon as possible, but in any case before the deadline of Friday 21 August. We will then email you with detailed AGM joining instructions after this date. Please note, if you have not already given CPRE permission to communicate with you on ALL matters via email and you wish to do so now, we would be happy to make this change in our membership database.
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