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Some people tell us ‘my MP does nothing for me’, but they still need to hear from us. So please take the time to write.

And do let us know if you receive a reply.

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Depending on whether your MP is part of the government or an opposition party, please adapt as necessary.

Subject: I care about nature and the environment – please protect it in planning legislation

Dear INSERT MP NAME HERE,

I am a Community Planning Alliance (CPA) supporter and one of your constituents. More than 700 campaign groups have now registered themselves on the CPA Grassroots Map – a clear indicator that the planning system and local democracy are very broken.

Dear Prime Minister

Before the current government came to power, and regularly since, they said that would not not build on green spaces.

Yet that is exactly what the government is doing.

Our green and pleasant land is at risk as never before.

→ The government have imposed sky-high housing targets on rural areas while there are enough brownfield sites, empty homes, commercial buildings and unbuilt planning permissions to create over 3 million homes.
→ They are asking the private sector to solve the housing crisis by building on green spaces, when it’s social housing that is needed.
→ They have brought in a Planning & Infrastructure Act which allows developers to pay to destroy habitats and introduced the Fingleton reforms which further weaken environmental protections.
→ They have introduced so-called ‘grey belt’ rules which are unleashing development on thousands of acres of pristine countryside in the green belt.
→ They are industrialising the countryside with pylons and solar panels, when solar should be on rooftops and cables should be underground or subsea.
→ Our town and city centres are facing dereliction in the absence of strong financial and planning incentives for regeneration.
→ Urban parks and playing fields are being sold, rented out for big commercial events or left to dereliction and sold to speculators.
→ The government have asked your departments and agencies to regulate for growth instead of for communities and the environment.

And to top it off, ministers have blamed nature and communities, with an unpleasant and divisive rhetoric, for blocking development. The government is destroying the very nature and countryside that voters love and want to protect. This is why on 18th April 2026, well over 220 communities all over the country organised events to show politicians how important their green spaces, parks and nature are.

I want to see a stop to the attacks on nature, parks and green spaces.

Kind regards,

[INSERT YOUR NAME HERE]
[ADDRESS]

Please note: Details of the CPA map can be found at www.CommunityPlanningAlliance.org