Welcome to CPRE West Yorkshire

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We are the countryside charity

We’re passionate about making the countryside a better place for everyone to live, work and enjoy. In West Yorkshire, CPRE works to protect, promote and enhance our amazing, beautiful countryside.

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Ways of Seeing West Yorkshire

We gathered stories about how the huge variety of ways that West Yorkshire countryside is seen, used and experienced – and how this could inform our plans for the future. Read more about our project here.

Ways of Seeing Project

Esholt Footbridge

Planning Case Studies

Explore the work that we do through our planning case studies

Queensbury Tunnel

Find out our plans for 21st Century Countryside in West Yorkshire

What is possible to develop a countryside that is truly fit for the challenges of the 21st Century? Find out about our work to explore this here.

Better Places to Live

Mottram bypass going to court!

October High Court Judicial Review hearing on controversial Mottram bypass

Local planning matters

Cifton, Brighouse - green belt land, proposed strategic extension

Calderdale community groups help demystify large-scale consultation

Community groups to the rescue with main modification consultation help!

Local planning matters

Cifton, Brighouse - green belt land, proposed strategic extension

Calderdale local plan update – August 2022

Long-running local plan examination with significant Green Belt loss continues

The remains of Howley Hall

Save our Fields

What we care about

What we care about

West Yorkshire

CPRE, the countryside charity structure review

Community

West Yorkshire

Planning White Paper 2020

Community

West Yorkshire

News Update April 2020

Community

West Yorkshire

Queensbury Rules!

Mottram bypass going to court!

October High Court Judicial Review hearing on controversial Mottram bypass

CPRE, the countryside charity structure review

David Cove, CPRE West Yorkshire Chair explains some recent changes

David Cove

Legal challenge to protect National Park and Green Belt

CPRE Peak District and South Yorkshire’s legal bid to halt A57 Link Roads