Rights and Planning

Environmental rights allow people to influence decisions that affect them and their environment. A strong system of environmental rights is not enough on its own though. People must be empowered to use these rights.

People who are experiencing bad environmental problems are loften ess able to deal with them. Recognising this trend, and working with communities to address these issues, helps us to achieve Environmental Justice.

Friends of the Earth campaigns to defend and extend the public's right to:

• Access environmental information
• Participate in the land-use planning system
• Have access to to the law

These pages have been designed to give you all the information you will need on environmental rights and the planning sytem to help with your local campaigning.

If you can't find what you want then let us know , and we'll do our best to get it linked from here.
The Rights & Justice Team

The Planning Bill campaign
The need to consider climate change in planning

Planning resources
Helping you understand and access the planning system

Rights and Justice centre
Legal advice on planning and environmental rights

Your right to know
Making Freedom of Information requests