This is to update you on our upcoming action and to give you an opportunity to get involved and support our efforts to try and get an amendment on Equal Rights of Appeal to the Planning Bill going through Parliament this Autumn.

To prepare for this final lobbying push, we are currently organising a planning networking and advocacy training day on Fri 22nd Sep at Friends Meeting House in central Edinburgh (7 Victoria St, EH1 2JL), 10am – 3pm with lunch break half way (lunch and refreshments provided).

The morning session will be about the peer support network and how the campaign groups and Community Councils are supporting each other (or not, for various reasons) and how Planning Democracy could support the groups better etc. Great for planning networking and useful exchange of information and experience.

In the afternoon, we will focus on the possible amendment to the Planning Bill and how to lobby MSPs on this /ERA specifically and encourage others to do so as well, whether it’s visiting their MSPs, writing to them or just sending postcards. Any pressure from the constituencies will be super important! If you let me know your land address I can put some ERA campaign cards in the post now, ready to share at any upcoming local meetings.

We will also have some ideas and props ready for the joint Scotland wide media campaign to follow. Each planning campaign group could do a photo-shoot at their contentious planning site, highlighting their specific issues and linking individual cases to the PD planning campaign; the same united message but from a distinctive local perspective. The Government is not listening to the contributions from civil society to the review so together we might be able to amplify the message.

Please let me know if you are interested in either and able to send a representative to the meeting in September. 

Daya Feldwick

Community Network Coordinator

Planning Democracy
Campaigning for a fair and inclusive planning system in Scotland
www.planningdemocracy.org.uk
Charity no. SC041051

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