Links to other sites
Listed below are links to web sites that can help you in your fight to protect your area.
www.allestreepreservationgroup.co.uk
An action group in Allestree, Derby, where lovely 1920s properties with beautiful gardens are just being gobbled up, and replaced with high density horrible housing.
GardenOrganic.They have an email petition to the government against garden grabbing. To sign it go to: www.gardenorganic.org.uk/saveourgardens/index.php.
Tandridge District Council www.tandridge.gov.uk Go to their Interactive Planning Section to check existing Planning Applications and the minutes and agendas of the Planning and Development Control committees. Also has details of the Council's planning policy and the official Local Plan.
A link containing details of all of the Governments planning guides If you want to know what PPS3 etc actually go here.
Friends if the Earth www.foe.co.uk. Campaigning group
Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs www.defra.gov.uk. Needs no introduction
Surrey Wildlife Trust www.surreywildlifetrust.co.uk Looks after most wildlife issues in Surrey. Used by the Council and developers to carry out environmental surveys but will also do them for private individuals and groups. Very helpful
Buglife Campaigns for insects www.buglife.org.uk/
A commercial environmental survey firm. Seems to be able to do surveys to support objections to development where there is a threat to wildlife, plants or the environment generally . www.environmental-entomology.co.uk/envent.html
Campaign to Protect Rural England www.cpre.org.uk Another good campaigning group
Woods Under Threat www.woodsunderthreat.info/
A list of all MP's all MP's
Natural England. A Government site www.countryside.gov.uk
National Trust www.nationaltrust.org.uk
UK Biodiversity Action Plan www.ukbap.org.uk/Help.aspx