From Laura Jansen, CPRE Campaigns Team

3 November 2010

Good afternoon Buntingford Civic Society members

Help us oppose mega dairy
Any day now, we're expecting a planning application for an indoor mega dairy for 8,100 cows in Lincolnshire.

This is the first one of its kind in England and if it goes ahead, could have serious consequences for the future of smaller traditional dairy farmers and the countryside.

Please support our campaign by emailing your MP to sign a parliamentary motion (EDM 942) against it.
> Email your MP (as usual, we've set up a draft online letter)


Has Cameron got the bottle?
A huge thank you if you were one of the 3,109 people who emailed the Government about our bottle deposit campaign in response to its consultation on how we deal with our waste. It"s set the record for our most popular campaign action.

We"ll hear the outcome of the waste policy consultation next spring and I"ll keep you up-to-date with our progress.

In the meantime, we"re already following up your emails with meetings with key organisations and parliamentarians.

In fact, at Prime Minister"s Questions shortly after we launched our bottle deposit campaign, Martin Horwood MP asked whether the Government would take "real, practical action like a bottle deposit and refund scheme". David Cameron confirmed that he"d ask the relevant Government team to see if they can "take it forward". So this is good news, but we hope there will now be real action to take a scheme forward.


Your Christmas shopping can help our campaigns
I can"t believe we"re already in November. You may have started to think about Christmas and any shopping you need to do, so I just wanted to let you know that we"ve launched a new online shop in collaboration with the Natural Collection.

We receive all proceeds from the sale of CPRE products and at least 10% of net online sales of other products, raising much needed funds to help our work.
> Visit our shop


Next month, I"ll be writing to you with the latest news on our campaign to save England"s most beautiful landscapes from huge new pylons.

With best wishes,

Laura Jansen