Much of the iconic wildlife of Sussex is in decline due to the pressure for new development, new roads and changes of land use. This is threatening some of the England’s most important wildlife habitats. For example, the county is home to one of the UK’s largest Nightingale populations and it provides internationally important and irreplaceable habitats for rare crested newts, club-tailed dragonflies and wetland birds. However, despite this, even our Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty are now being critically eroded by unsustainable urban sprawl. CPRE Sussex is now urgently appealing for funds to continue vital work to ensure that Sussex’s irreplaceable green fields, woodlands and unique biodiversity receive the protection they deserve and that its rural communities have a positive future.  

We urgently need your help!

In July, the Government released a new National Planning Policy Framework with new rules, including a Housing Delivery Test, which together with the requirement for Councils to demonstrate a five year housing supply, tips the balance yet further in favour of developers and away from communities.

This opens the door to more speculative development – potentially destroying yet more of Sussex’s valuable countryside and going against the plans of its local communities. Please donate to CPRE Sussex via the Charities Aid Foundation.

Your help makes the difference

The valuable donations we receive from our supporters enable us to speak at planning meetings alongside communities and to enable us to push for more protection for the county’s valuable countryside. As well as working locally, we work nationally behind the scenes to contribute to government proposals such as transport and energy infrastructure. Unglamorous, but vital to shape the natural world that we all depend on.

We need your help to continue this fight for a positive future for the Sussex countryside.

How can you help?  

We are a small but effective charity.  If you are able to help us with a donation, of any size, it will make a great difference to our work.  Please donate.

Thank you for taking the time to read this urgent appeal.  

Yours sincerely,

Kia Trainor
Director, CPRE Sussex

Image courtesy of Tom Lee