Resources

How to respond to Planning Applications

This guide starts with a clear introduction to the English planning system. It breaks down planning jargon and key phrases to help you better understand how the planning system works.  It then sets out eight key steps for meaningfully and positively engaging with planning applications in your area. From understanding the context to drafting responses and gathering support, this section empowers you to support good development and to take a positive, active part in shaping what gets built in your area.

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Reports & Useful Downloads

Landscape Design Guide

Encouraging the right kind of building in suitable places in Northamptonshire in 2024

Unravelling a crisis

Report on the state of rural affordable housing in England 2023

Getting solar off the ground

Report offering solutions and alternatives to damaging ground-mounted mega solar 2025

Shout from the rooftops

Delivering a common-sense solar revolution 2023. Report on use and recommendations of solar energy in England