ISSN 2515-5105 Magazine of the Surrey Campaign to Protect Rural England | Summer 2021 BACK TO NATURE Follow us on Twitter @CPRESurrey Visit our website www.cpresurrey.org.uk Email:
[email protected] Go-ahead for Surrey Hills AONB review Protecting Guildford’s countryside for the future Natural England, the government agency responsible one of England’s most beautiful landscapes, as we By Alivia Kratke View of Pewley Down Fields (credit Alistair Williams) for the natural environment, announced on 24 June that build back greener from the pandemic.” There have been four generations of Guildfordians since the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity Pewley Hill was spared from development and gifted to the (AONB) will be considered for boundary expansion. community a hundred years ago. Yet, this year, residents of Welcoming the announcement, Heather Kerswell, Chair This is an important announcement and follows the town were called upon, once again, to rally round and of the Surrey Hills AONB Board commented: “We are years of campaigning by CPRE Surrey to secure the protect this special area for the generations to follow. extension of the AONB to take in more of Surrey’s most delighted that work is starting on a proposed extension Pewley Down Fields, farmland adjacent to the Pewley Hill beautiful countryside, allowing it to benefi t from greater to this nationally important landscape. I fi nd it diffi cult to nature reserve, and in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding protection and to be safeguarded for future generations. understand why the existing boundary was drawn so incredibly tightly and excluded many beautiful natural Natural Beauty, contains diverse and abundant fl ora and The Surrey Hills AONB stretches across a quarter of landscapes.