For residents' groups
Keep watch over the green belt near you
Protect Green Belt gives your group its own campaign website. It checks the council's planning register every day, tells people when something that matters comes up, and gives your organisers the tools to do something about it.
What a campaign gets
Everything a residents' group needs to follow planning in its area and get people involved, ready to use. We set it up for you and keep it running.
A daily check of the planning register
Every morning we look through your council's new and changed planning applications, and pick out the ones that matter: new building in the green belt or on open land, not tree works or a new porch.
Email updates people choose themselves
Residents sign up on your site for the updates they want, as they happen, daily or weekly. Every email has a link to change or stop them.
Green spaces and proposals
A page for each field, wood or meadow you're protecting, and for each developer's scheme, with its documents, deadlines and what people can do.
A map of everything
Planning applications, proposals and green spaces on one map of your area, so people can see what's planned near them.
Help writing objections
Guidance that helps residents write their own comment to the council, in their own words, on the points that planning officers can take into account.
Meetings and notes
Plan meetings, keep notes and attendance, and share the public details. Photos of handwritten notes can be typed up for you.
Volunteers and councillors
A volunteer sign-up form, and a record of your local councillors and how they voted on the applications you follow.
An organiser team with its own sign-in
Your organisers sign in with a code sent by email: no passwords to forget. Admins decide who looks after which green space.
How it works
Tell us about your group
Where the green belt or green space is, and which council decides planning there.
We set up your site
We mark out your area on a map and choose what to look out for. You get a free address on protectgreenbelt.org.uk, or use your own domain.
Your team takes it from there
Organisers sign in, add the green spaces and proposals you care about, and residents sign up for updates.
We're starting with councils whose planning register runs on the Idox system (about half of councils in England, including Cheshire West and Chester). If your council uses something else, tell us anyway: it helps us decide which to add next.
Campaigns
More campaigns are being set up. Yours could be next.
Protect the green spaces near you
Tell us about your group and the place you want to protect. We'll get back to you about setting up your campaign.
Start a campaign