The Charter For Communities
We believe in community rights – and that people are the solution, not the problem.
Our Charter gives communities both protections and opportunities to drive positive change in our local areas.
In July 2025, The Government introduced the England Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill, with an aim being to ‘give communities stronger tools to shape their local areas’. The Community Charter gives people and places the basic rights they need to shape local decisions, protect their environment, and build healthier, fairer communities. Write to your MP to tell them you support the inclusion of the Community Charter in the Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill.
Planning rules are so important to a community, to control the environment we want to live in. This should be a community decision, not developers and Whitehall.
Joanna W
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This is sadly a common struggle around Europe, and we should all be worried about it, especially now.
Stephan H
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I have been involved in fighting inappropriate development in the past (and been on the winning side) but the latest planning proposals remove the rights of citizens to have a meaningful voice regarding the planning process. This imposition of arbitrary planning rules will be anti-democratic and will be disastrous for...
Anne H
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Section 106 clauses are the only way to build social conditions into the development process, sitting employment and training targets for local labour and diverse groups in society, as well as equality objectives. These cannot be replaced by an Infrastructure levy.
Linda C
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Holmer Green and Hazlemere Neighbourhood Development Forum is a Facebook group which is giving a voice to people in these villages. We aim to let people know about prospective development plans, rather than relying on a poster on a random lamppost. Agreements have been signed between Planning Officers and Developers...
Susan J
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This change to the Planning rules threatens to destroy the democratic process and to undermine all the hard work that has gone into creating Neighbourhood Plans. Local opinion and support is crucial to fair and democratic government. The proposed changes do nothing but pander to developers and central government.
Richard S
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We desparately need to rennovate existing empty homes/buildings, build sustainably where needed (see Norwich's Award WInning, council owned, Goldsmith Street development) and protect our rapidly diminishing wildlife. We are the 29th least biodiverse nation in the world.
Victoria F
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We already have this in my borough where there are vast swathes of empty millionaires flats being railroaded through by our Tory council. Homeless families housed in temporary accommodation for that is anything but as they are there for years on end, which have shared bathrooms, no kitchens or above...
Claudia M
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It seems to me that this is a massive power grab by central government to control us by removing local democratic processes that are now in place. What then about the Local Plans that in some cases have taken years to carefully develop? There are serious concerns here about the...
Wendy H
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What ever happened to localism? People should have the right to participate in, comment on, and contribute to what happens to their neighbourhood, as in Neighbourhood Plans. Give planning decisions back to councils and allow democractic participation in the planning process.
Felicity T
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