Take action
You can use the planning system in many ways to protect the countryside, promote urban regeneration and shape your local environment.
Suggestions on how you can get involved
- Campaign tips
- Find out about the big issues in planning today
- Give us feedback
- Join our letter-writing team
- Join CPRE
- Get involved with a CPRE branch or regional group
Campaign tips
Whether you want to save a meadow or change planning legislation, effective campaigning is a powerful way to
- Promote good and prevent bad decisions
- Influence opinion and behaviour
- Raise awareness on issues that are important to you
- Improve the law, regulations or guidance, and implementation at regional and local level
- Campaigning is not just about lobbying
A successful campaign requires good planning, sound skills and arguments and time and money .
Find out about the big issues in planning today
CPRE's campaigns address many of the core issues facing the countryside today.
Good land-use planning can help slow the growth in road traffic, encourage urban regeneration, curb urban sprawl, protect the beauty and tranquillity of the countryside and safeguard wildlife habitats, if people put pressure on decision makers to do these things.
You can get involved in our campaigns on planning issues
- Protecting Green Belts
- Influencing major housebuilding plans
- stopping sprawl and more.
Give us feedback
Please let us know how we could improve this website and make it better for people who wish to use the planning system to shape their local environment.
Join our letter-writing team
We could really use your written help with some of our campaigns.
Our letter-writing team of members and supporters writes letters from time to time to key 'opinion formers' like local MPs, a Government department or a member of the House of Lords.
Won't you join us? The letters we ask people to write are straightforward, politically balanced and don't take long to write.
We supply suggested text highlighting key points, which you are free to amend. We would ask you to write a couple of letters a year.
If you can help, or would like more information, please call our campaigns team (020 7981 2800) or send them an email.
Join CPRE
Join CPRE and become a member of a dynamic network of 60,000 other people helping to protect our countryside.
Get involved with a CPRE branch or regional group
Want to make a difference to the big decisions affecting your local countryside? CPRE has 200 district groups, 43 branches and 9 regional groups across England.
Our volunteers get involved in issues ranging from responding to planning applications to influencing development plans, and promoting our major campaigns at the local level.