East of England
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| Location | East of England, United Kingdom |
| Coordinates | 52° 13' 11.92" N, 0° 29' 15.28" E |
The aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks (CANs) and community groups' activism for climate, environment and many other sustainability topics across the East of England.
News
How farmers are finding greener ways to produce food, from East Anglia to Andhra Pradesh in India, theconversation.com (Sep 19, 2025) - The 10 areas across east and south-east England where housing targets will be 'undeliverable' due to a shortage of water reserves, inews.co.uk (Mar 08, 2025) — Water scarcity issues are less acute further north, in areas such as Yorkshire, Northumberland, Cumbria and Lancashire – as well as in Wales and Scotland
Networks and sustainability initiatives
Localism
Supporting community business in the East of England, powertochange.org.uk, added 11:48, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
Community resources
- CLT East (Community Land Trust) umbrella organisation in the East of England
Sustainable transport activism
The Broads Society - Broads Authority
Rewilding
- WildEast, a Movement of People for Nature Forever in East Anglia, added 10:39, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
- Hedge Pledge page, from WildEast: to see how a wilder farm might look, use the slider, 2nd picture down (slider: pick up with curser just to the left of 'Current' and drag to the right edge), added 15:23, 19 December 2021 (UTC), see also: News and comment, Dec 14, 2021
Maps
- WildEast's Map of Dreams, allows anyone to pledge land, "Day by day, year by year, we can all work together until we have returned 20% of the region to nature." added10:39, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
About the East of England
Campaigns
The East of England is one of nine official regions of England at the first level of ITL for statistical purposes. It consists of the ceremonial counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. The northern part of the region, consisting of Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, is known as East Anglia. The latter region has been considered an informal region in its own right due to its differing cultural identity.
The population of the East of England in 2024 was 6,576,306. Bedford, Luton, Basildon, Peterborough, Southend-on-Sea, Norwich, Ipswich, Colchester, Chelmsford and Cambridge are the most populous settlements. Peterborough is the largest city in the East of England at 215,000. The southern part of the region lies in the London commuter belt.
News archive
- ‘A special place’: Guardian readers’ generosity helps to save rewilded farm, theguardian.com (Nov 14, 2024)
- Who owns Norfolk? It's an extraordinary story of mostly very, very old inherited wealth. But the digital mapping would benefit any area, Daily Alternative (Oct 18, 2024)
- As effluent from sewage works and agricultural pollution flow freely into rivers, researchers and local citizens are urgently seeking to clean up the UK's waterways. New wildlife-rich wetlands could be an answer, bbc.co.uk (Jul 05, 2024)
- Labour’s supposedly bold ‘new towns’ idea has been tried before. And it failed, Simon Jenkins, theguardian.com (Oct 12, 2023) — These vast sums should be spent improving our ‘second-tier’ cities – not on costly, carbon-guzzling developments in the rural south
- Norfolk Wildlife Trust Renews Concern Over Proposed Norwich Western Link, change.org (Oct 12, 2023)
- The Tories are tearing themselves apart over housing – but this is another crisis of their own making, John Harris, The Guardian (Nov 27, 2022)
- Connectivity, Founder Opinion Piece, Hugh Somerleyton, Wild East (Jun 21, 2022)
- Climate change: Don't let doom win, project tells worriers, BBC News (Apr 28, 2022)
- Trees, forests, scrub and hedgerows provide vital sources of habitat, food and shelter for an extraordinary array of wildlife. The problem is we don't have nearly enough of it here in the East, Wild East (Mar 14, 2022) — Hugh Somerleyton, one of WildEast's Founders argues we must strive for a wetter, wilder and woodier landscape for the benefit of all
- WildEdges Send Ministers Wild! Dec 14, 2021...wildeast.co.uk
- Norfolk Broads and climate change: Natural England maps out a future for climate change, March 31, 2009...Natural England
Blogs
Near you
See also
- Towards a more democratic and climate friendly way of meeting housing need across England
- London and South East England
| Authors | Phil Green |
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| License | CC-BY-SA-3.0 |
| Cite as | Phil Green (2014–2025). "Community action/East of England". Appropedia. Retrieved November 28, 2025. |