The Charter for Communities

Signatures

Organisations

44 organisations have signed up to show their support

Community Led Action & Savings SupportNovember 25, 2025, 10:03 am
Save DartingyonJune 23, 2021, 9:15 am
The Peoples HubJune 19, 2021, 8:44 pm
The Peoples Hub has been built to help people and to love the planet, and fully support this campaign. Greenwashing has become the new norm and it is unacceptable. More power needs to be given to / back to the people to improve communities, now and for generations to come. Ethics and transparency are key.
National Pensioners ConventionJune 10, 2021, 8:21 am
Fuel Poverty ActionMay 27, 2021, 2:12 pm
Fuel Poverty Action is particularly concerned about regeneration plans busting up communities and taking away people’s support networks, leading to more expensive housing and heating. Even building fabric is not necessarily more energy efficient as claimed, and there are huge carbon costs from reconstruction. Communities must have the right to make informed decision themselves.
Chalgrove Airfield Action GroupMay 6, 2021, 12:04 pm
Chalgrove Airfield Action Group has been representing the residents of Chalgrove and the surrounding villages and parishes to ensure that local planners understand and recognise the depth of opposition to placing a disproportionately large car-based settlement in an isolated rural setting. We need planners to understand that our objections may not be couched in idealised planning language, but are absolutely clear in the reasons why this is a terrible idea. We know our area better than you do – we know the chaos and environmental destruction this will cause. Listen to us.
Health and Wellbeing in Planning NetworkDecember 7, 2020, 4:00 pm
Frack Free LancashireNovember 27, 2020, 2:23 pm
Gardens and Open Spaces HullNovember 20, 2020, 11:25 am
GOSH is campaigning for sustainable open-space management, led by the community for the community in partnership with the council, to enable food growing and encourage biodiversity in the city of Hull. We firmly believe climate change and sustainability must be the foremost consideration in Planning decisions and we therefore support the Charter.
Test Valley Friends of the EarthNovember 13, 2020, 5:51 pm

Individuals

363 individuals have signed up to show their support

Dr Rosalie CallwayNovember 10, 2025, 5:28 pm
Neil Duncan-Jordan MPOctober 27, 2025, 6:14 pm
The right to a decent environment in all its forms is basic and fundamental, as is the right to have a say over how that environment is used. We should see this as a common treasury for all – not a means of making profits for a few.
Catherine EdminsonOctober 9, 2025, 10:22 am
Sarah WolferstanJune 11, 2024, 5:33 pm
Stephen HillSeptember 9, 2022, 4:26 pm
The planning system ought to be based on some basic universal and long lasting democratic rights for citizens to be heard, participate in and shape the planning system and its decisions. Those rights should transcend the political priorities of government, especially now, when politicians will claim the need to act swiftly in emergencies, yet are only reinforcing the essentially undemocratic forces which shape the places where we live, over which we have no say or control, and the consequences of which may last for a generation eg. we are going to start fracking again!
Johnny HayesMay 30, 2022, 8:18 am
We need to support this Charter and to do the same in our own local authority.
Amy VarleMarch 28, 2022, 9:15 pm
Louise EnnisFebruary 16, 2022, 9:44 pm
Helen RobertsFebruary 15, 2022, 10:40 am
Phil GreenFebruary 8, 2022, 6:00 pm
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I fully support these aims. In my view we need a community led planning system fit for the 21st century

Roger A

We have the opportunity to build a better future after the pandemic – but with community participation essential – as the pandemic has shown the determination and resilience of communities to find positive ways forward to benefit everyone especially the most disadvantaged.

Ruth t

We live in a democracy. Why try to change this? Your children won't thank you!

Graciela S

I firmly believe corporate greed will destroy the environment and suck all the money out of communities.

Stuart D

I am signing as an individual but I am part of several local groups including our residents association currently seeking a Judicial Review of a planning decision on grounds which I can see include obstructing 1 and 2 of this charter. I am sure we will be looking at whether the RA…

Alistair H

What is happening at the moment is ill thought out and certainly not up for the needs of people living in a community and that allows us to tackle climate change. The system appears broken. I don't understand what is driving it.

Sarah W

Local people need to be involved in the planning process.

Matthew H

This Charter not only accurately represents my strong views on this subject but also accurately highlights the anger and frustration resulting from the helplessness of being powerless to influence what happens in my own community.

Chris A

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

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