There’s an account of lessons learned from one successful campaign here for Havelock Rec in Bromley. This campaign got inspiration and much useful advise from the account of saving Crystal Palace Park reproduced (with permission) at How to run a successful community campaign to save your open space by Philip Colvin (which you can also find as a pdf form, on the site from London Parks & Green Spaces Forum) This publication covers the journey, from forming your campaign, to how to object to planning, and if you win, how to evolve a management plan with the landowner/council.
There are some planning designations that your friends group can apply for, for your green space (not all are applicable to every green space, so some additional reading up will be required) see them listed on our Planning page.
Our Legal Cases pages have accounts from significant legal cases (usually judicial reviews) that have London-wide significance.
Saving your green space - tactics thats-worked-for-us Factors that worked for saving Havelock Rec Context: Officers and directors at Bromley Council had offered to provide somewhere for La Fontaine pre-school. The Renewal Director at Bromley Council offered the (then) Education Funding… see more...
Feb 2013 DEFENDING LONDON’S GREEN SPACES FROM UNWANTED DEVELOPMENT 1. How to build and maintain a coalition of local residents, support organisations, local institutions, etc, to either get good things done or stop bad ones? How to engage park users… see more...
July 2015 Discussion: Protecting our green spaces Reps from local campaigns made brief updates and shared experiences of successful tactics: The Chair summed up what seemed to be the effective campaign tactics: Mass leafleting; Petitions (paper and online); Door to… see more...
Tactics useful for fighting Land grabs Financial support needed. Crowdfunding a useful method.Petitions and pledges - 38 Degrees is a petitioning site making it easy to campaign to mobilise public.CPRE (see below) will offer publicity support for campaignsPublic awareness could… see more...
The majority of the content and structure of this document is derived from work by Philip Colvin, the Chairman of the Crystal Palace Campaign. It was originally written for the charity GreenSpace as: ‘How to Run a Successful Community Campaign… see more...
Summary of successful tactics employed to save green space from development: from the LFGN meeting of 20th July, 2015. The Chair summed up what seemed to be the effective campaign tactics: • Mass leafleting • Petitions (paper and online) • … see more...
