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Campaign to Protect Rural England Standing up for your countryside

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Making planning better and fairer

Petersfield: when communities have a say, planning can create better living spaces Petersfield: when communities have a say, planning can create better living spaces Photo: © CPRE

Planning is one of the most important ways in how we control and protect our environment. Planning decisions affect us all, yet we often have very little input. We want planning to be fairer, engage communities and protect the countryside as well as regenerate our towns and villages.

As part of this we want a national framework to ensure the planning system fulfils its purpose to protect the environment. Local planning authorities should have to ensure that planning decisions are followed.

Our view

Our charter for planning reform sets out what we want to see:

> an open and accessible planning process to encourage more people to engage with the planning system;
> a fair appeals process, to provide fully justified planning decisions;
> greater weight for the views of local communities in the planning system;
> locally distinctive communities, where high quality, well designed, energy efficient and appropriately located homes meet local needs and enhance distinctiveness; and
> a countryside that is valued and protected.

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