How to comment on planning developments
People need housing - that is a fact. People need clean, safe, suitable places to live. But this doesn't have to cause problems for nature and wildlife.
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Community Hub
Helping you to help nature in your neighbourhood. The Wildlife Trusts' Community Hub offers the advice and support you need to get started.
Community Action Week 2025
It's Community Action Week! Celebrating inspiration and stories from around the UK.
Planning and development
Building homes, business premises and transport links could and should have an overall positive impact on nature.
Planning by numbers
The time it can take to build out developments granted planning permission is too long. The Wildlife Trusts’ head of land use planning, Becky Pullinger, discusses why.
Forward Planning Volunteer
This link will open on the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust website.
Our Planning Team respond development control and forward planning consultations to work to ensure that the decisions of Yorkshire’s planning systems positively contribute to the recovery of…
Community organising
Community organising is about building real relationships with people on a local level, finding out what people want to do in their area and helping them achieve this for themselves.
Community Organiser
This link will open on the Shropshire Wildlife Trust website.
We’re delighted to be part of the partnership delivering the Shropshire Hills Landscape Connections project. This ambitious, multi-year project aims to create transformative change across the…
Planning applications and wildlife
Development can cause serious harm to wildlife but it does not have to. Development can also deliver valuable biodiversity enhancement. Influencing a planning proposal is as much about promoting positive outcomes as it is about fighting harmful proposals. Information and advice on planning applications.
Community Engagement Volunteer
This link will open on the Kent Wildlife Trust website.
Help our engagement team reach the community of Dover by helping with event and outreach work.
The English planning reform – planning to fail wildlife?
We are appalled that the Government’s proposals for reforming the planning system in England are to ‘tear it down and start again.’
Alderney Community Woodland
This link will open on the Alderney Wildlife Trust website.
The landscape and features of the Alderney Community Woodland is the result of many thousand of years of human activity on the island. Historic features, built heritage and a variety of habitats…