Village Green / Town Green – Planning Designations You Can Apply for Protection

13th November 201712th March 2018 committee

Village Green or Town Green – If granted, it’s the best protection from your green space being developed. The Open Space Society can help you with this process (if they […]

Asset of Community Value – Planning Designations You Can Apply for Protection

13th November 201726th February 2018 committee

List of Assets of Community Value – Basically, this entitles the community to purchase the land at market value, and for any developer to give time for the community to […]

Notes for stopping development on green spaces over Landfill.

23rd October 201726th February 2018 committee

Parks and green space that have been placed over landfill are often considered ‘Brownfield’ if the planning authority wishes to develop them, which can make stopping them from being developed, […]

Users and Communities

19th October 201729th November 2017 committee

Dogs Dogs Cycling Cycling

Biodiversity

19th October 201710th November 2017 committee

Biodiversity, the art of having something other than closely mown grass.

Trees / Woodland

19th October 201729th November 2017 committee

Trees / Woodland

Exploitation

19th October 201729th November 2017 committee

Monetising, Festivals and Over-Exploitation Actions that groups have taken when their councils have monetised the community space, with Festivals or other Over-Exploitation, that mean the open space is not available […]

Planning

19th October 201730th November 2023 committee

Planning: This section is about issues your group might face: * objecting to planning applications to develop your green space, * planning designations that your green space might have, or […]