Talk:CPRE

message: Seems very PoV to me. Andy Mabbett 17:27, 15 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Shouldn't that be anti-suburbanist? If people want to save the countryside, we need more urb (and less suburbs). If this organisation is too muddled to see the distinction, is there some why the issue can be put across in the article? Merchbow 08:21, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Anti-''urb''anist?

message: One big critism of CPRE is that the members generally are people of a certain age who have benefited greatly from the increase in cost of housing in the UK. The housing shortage has seen house prices treble within a decade, and some of the people who have benefited most from this increase, actively campaign against ensuring there is adequate housing stock to meet demand. In certain parts of the UK local CPRE groups boast of their vexatious litigation in slowing provision of housing, they know that they don't have a credible argument and that housing is needed but are able to exploit the planning applications in order to delay house building by several years. Is this worth a mention? I can find sources for the boasting by Oxfordshire CPRE for vexatious litigation and the demographics of CPRE own membership show that the majority of their members have profiteered from the housing shortage and have more to lose if the UK were to adopt a fair and non age discriminatory housing policy.
Answer: ECONOMICS DOES NOT COME INTO IT
I'm not in the above category, but I support the preservation of our countryside. There is limited space in the UK for housing and the enormous amount of infrastructure that has to go with it. Quarrying, roads, airports, sewers, landfill, schools, hospitals, manufacturing, motor vehicle congestion, reservoirs. This is not an island with an unlimited supply of land. We also might consider that space is required for green energy initiatives, to say nothing of the need to grow food. 
The issue here is should the UK be made a place fit only for human habitation? And is increasing the population of the UK sustainable in the long term? The answer to that is no. At some point if the population continues to increase controls on human migration will have to be imposed. I think it extremely sad that few are willing to face up to this.
House building companies arguably profiteer from the demand in housing that results from open borders and an unwillingness by government to encourage people to have smaller families.
I am not a member of the CPRE. John2o2o2o (talk) 22:24, 25 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economics over Environmentalism? 

message: UK has the highest urban area as percentage of any large country:
https://www.lincolninst.edu/subcenters/atlas-urban-expansion/documents/table-urban-land-cover-data.xls
Criticism seems misguided - any point of view can be referenced, but that doesn't give it validity.  Am therefore removing.  Suggest at least a strong rewrite.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.47.247.95 (talk) 23:54, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing criticism of being concreted over 

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