CPRE useful documents for objecting to planning applications

Campaign groups operating within the planning system will, at some stage, be very likely called to attend a Local Plan examination or an appeal hearing. In that situation, there will be only one arbiter: a planning inspector. It can be daunting for community representatives to attend these hearings. They will be faced with rows of…

Here is a list of a few countrywide petitions you can sign Halt Harmful Housing Produce a Farmland Protection Policy to regulate the loss of farmland to solar Ban development on agricultural land to increase food self-sufficiency Suspend major development applications on green belt and protected land

Email contact details for Lords who are supportive of saving agricultural land for crops and farming. Please write to them explaining our campaign and fight Baroness Jones of Moulsecoomb Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle  Baroness Young of Old Scone Baroness Boycott (Kent) Baroness Thornhill Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville Baroness Jones of Whitchurch Lord Whitty…

Planning for housing supply in England is governed by a presumption in favour of sustainable development, otherwise known as the ‘tilted balance’. The tilted balance makes the proving of harm that might result from a development much more onerous. Has the balance between public and property interests in planning tilted too far? Recorded on February…