Housing and planning
9 steps to influence a planning application
CPRE's Friends of the Peak District has put together a very useful guide for responding to planning applications and we have tailored it for use in our area.
Affordable Housing Keeps Villages alive
This brochure considers the need for affordable housing in rural communities and how it can be built to best meet the needs of local people in the long term. Prepared by the National Housing Federation in conjunction with CPRE and other partners.
CPRE Lancashire Brownfield Land Register Toolkit
CPRE Lancashire has released three new Brownfield Toolkits, available to download from this website, to support communities in highlighting brownfield sites in their local area, both to reduce development pressure on the countryside and to encourage the regeneration of unsightly or derelict sites.
Local plans
CPRE can provide support and guidance to members of the public who wish to make their own comments on their local plans.
Looking after heritage through the planning system
CPRE Kent has produced an extemely helpful new guide to protecting our heritage.
Neighbourhood planning
Our guide to neighbuorhood planning will help you to get involved and shape where you live.
Responding to planning applications
This booklet gives an easy to follow, step-by-step guide to responding to a local planning application.
Successful campaigning saves Green Belt!
CPRE Lancashire and its West Lancashire District Group, with the support of some parish councils and local groups commissioned Piers Elias, an expert demographer who reviewed the proposed housing figures. The CPRE response with the demographic appraisal report appended, evidenced how jobs growth and housing numbers were flawed and wrongly inflated.