Planning Democracy
@plandemoc.bsky.social
We're a Scotland based, grassroots organisation campaigning for a fairer planning system that works for both people and planet.
https://www.planningdemocracy.org.uk
https://www.planningdemocracy.org.uk
Want to see a radical overhaul of Scotland's planning system? So do we!
Join us at our manifesto launch event in Edinburgh on Thursday 27 November. More information here:
www.planningdemocracy.org.uk/2025/we-have...
Join us at our manifesto launch event in Edinburgh on Thursday 27 November. More information here:
www.planningdemocracy.org.uk/2025/we-have...
We Have a New Plan and You are Invited
Its time for a radical overhaul of Scotland’s planning system, which currently fuels inequality, environmental harm, and excludes communities in favour of private profit. Over the past few months, …
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October 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Want to see a radical overhaul of Scotland's planning system? So do we!
Join us at our manifesto launch event in Edinburgh on Thursday 27 November. More information here:
www.planningdemocracy.org.uk/2025/we-have...
Join us at our manifesto launch event in Edinburgh on Thursday 27 November. More information here:
www.planningdemocracy.org.uk/2025/we-have...
Would you like to join our team? We're looking for trustees at Planning Democracy. For more information, see our advert on Good Moves here, deadline 27 October:
goodmoves.org/vacancy/a4sP...
goodmoves.org/vacancy/a4sP...
Trustees with Planning Democracy – Goodmoves
We are looking for new trustees to join our board and the wider Planning Democracy team. If you are interested in democracy, justice, the environment or planning, please take a look at what we ...
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October 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Would you like to join our team? We're looking for trustees at Planning Democracy. For more information, see our advert on Good Moves here, deadline 27 October:
goodmoves.org/vacancy/a4sP...
goodmoves.org/vacancy/a4sP...
That soggy patch of grass on a new housing estate? It might be a SuDS fighting floods & feeding hoverflies! Want to help make new housing greener and wilder? Join our webinar to learn how to push for nature-first development. #SuDS #UrbanNature #WildlifeFriendly
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Drainage, Ditches & Buzzing Biodiversity!
Join us for a fascinating dive into Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems - and how they can double up as mini-wetlands bursting with life.
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August 5, 2025 at 10:32 AM
That soggy patch of grass on a new housing estate? It might be a SuDS fighting floods & feeding hoverflies! Want to help make new housing greener and wilder? Join our webinar to learn how to push for nature-first development. #SuDS #UrbanNature #WildlifeFriendly
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drainage-d...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/drainage-d...
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Thanks to Clare for hosting, really good to get together yesterday. Lots of energy and enthusiasm for the year ahead.
The weather may have been a bit damp but the PD team were not discouraged!
Luckily we had a huge parachute to keep dry under. Great food, chat (not always about planning), walks and even a quiz at the annual social gathering.
Luckily we had a huge parachute to keep dry under. Great food, chat (not always about planning), walks and even a quiz at the annual social gathering.
July 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Thanks to Clare for hosting, really good to get together yesterday. Lots of energy and enthusiasm for the year ahead.
The weather may have been a bit damp but the PD team were not discouraged!
Luckily we had a huge parachute to keep dry under. Great food, chat (not always about planning), walks and even a quiz at the annual social gathering.
Luckily we had a huge parachute to keep dry under. Great food, chat (not always about planning), walks and even a quiz at the annual social gathering.
July 7, 2025 at 8:59 AM
The weather may have been a bit damp but the PD team were not discouraged!
Luckily we had a huge parachute to keep dry under. Great food, chat (not always about planning), walks and even a quiz at the annual social gathering.
Luckily we had a huge parachute to keep dry under. Great food, chat (not always about planning), walks and even a quiz at the annual social gathering.
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In Scotland, nature is struggling.
But this year we have a huge chance to help it recover with the Natural Environment Bill.
We need our leaders to know how much Scotland's nature matters!
Declare your love for nature:
www.scotlandlovesnature.scot/actnow
www.youtube.com/shorts/PJdbt...
But this year we have a huge chance to help it recover with the Natural Environment Bill.
We need our leaders to know how much Scotland's nature matters!
Declare your love for nature:
www.scotlandlovesnature.scot/actnow
www.youtube.com/shorts/PJdbt...
Declare your love for nature!
YouTube video by ScotLINK
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March 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
In Scotland, nature is struggling.
But this year we have a huge chance to help it recover with the Natural Environment Bill.
We need our leaders to know how much Scotland's nature matters!
Declare your love for nature:
www.scotlandlovesnature.scot/actnow
www.youtube.com/shorts/PJdbt...
But this year we have a huge chance to help it recover with the Natural Environment Bill.
We need our leaders to know how much Scotland's nature matters!
Declare your love for nature:
www.scotlandlovesnature.scot/actnow
www.youtube.com/shorts/PJdbt...
Join us for an open discussion on how we can best mobilise in defence of environmental democracy. Excellent speakers and a guaranteed energising evening!
How can we defend environmental democracy?
Join our webinar on responding to the hostility towards people’s concerns about planning and the environment, with guest speakers Lesley Riddoch, Laurie McFarlane and Professor Malcolm Tait.
📆 7-8.30pm, 25/03
➡️ environmentaldemocracy.eventbrite.co.uk
Join our webinar on responding to the hostility towards people’s concerns about planning and the environment, with guest speakers Lesley Riddoch, Laurie McFarlane and Professor Malcolm Tait.
📆 7-8.30pm, 25/03
➡️ environmentaldemocracy.eventbrite.co.uk
March 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Join us for an open discussion on how we can best mobilise in defence of environmental democracy. Excellent speakers and a guaranteed energising evening!
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This week's publication of Scotland's Natural Environment Bill is a hopeful moment in the battle against the nature and climate crises. But much more is needed to win.
Read our full response:
www.scotlandlovesnature.scot/charities-we...
#ScotlandLovesNature
Read our full response:
www.scotlandlovesnature.scot/charities-we...
#ScotlandLovesNature
Charities welcome Natural Environment Bill - Scotland Loves Nature
Environment charities have welcomed the publication this week of Scotland’s Natural Environment Bill, a crucial step in fighting the nature and climate crises.
www.scotlandlovesnature.scot
February 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This week's publication of Scotland's Natural Environment Bill is a hopeful moment in the battle against the nature and climate crises. But much more is needed to win.
Read our full response:
www.scotlandlovesnature.scot/charities-we...
#ScotlandLovesNature
Read our full response:
www.scotlandlovesnature.scot/charities-we...
#ScotlandLovesNature
Campaigners in Invergordon have been fighting a housing development that is significantly contrary to the LDP yet being recommended for approval, despite impacting ancient woodland & veteran trees. Please support their fight for justice for nature www.sogs-highlands.co.uk @wtscotsocial.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Campaigners in Invergordon have been fighting a housing development that is significantly contrary to the LDP yet being recommended for approval, despite impacting ancient woodland & veteran trees. Please support their fight for justice for nature www.sogs-highlands.co.uk @wtscotsocial.bsky.social
Communities have no right to appeal planning decisions even if it is flawed or environmentally destructive. The only way to challenge is through expensive legal action.
This brave community have done this.
Please donate to help them succeed
www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-ri...
Save Riverside Park!
We are raising £5,000 to take legal action against Dundee City Council's decision to grant planning permission to a 10,000 sq ft training facility on our beloved greenspace by the river Tay.
www.crowdjustice.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Communities have no right to appeal planning decisions even if it is flawed or environmentally destructive. The only way to challenge is through expensive legal action.
This brave community have done this.
Please donate to help them succeed
www.crowdjustice.com/case/save-ri...
Still time to sign up!
Our final webinar of the series with @plandemoc.bsky.social is happening this evening. This looks absolutely essential for all communities working on local planning issues!!!!
"Are we being gaslit?
The role communities can play in holding developers to account."
Quite a provocative title for Kiera Chapman's talk at our webinar this evening! Come and hear her, and two other speakers at 7pm
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
kierachapman@bsky.social
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The role communities can play in holding developers to account."
Quite a provocative title for Kiera Chapman's talk at our webinar this evening! Come and hear her, and two other speakers at 7pm
www.eventbrite.co.uk...
kierachapman@bsky.social
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February 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Still time to sign up!
Nature & Planning Webinar Wed 5th Feb 7-8.30pm
Planning Conditions & Enforcement How do they work for Nature?
Speakers
Kiera Chaman Oxford Uni
Stuart Bence Nature Scot
Ed Swales Enforcement Officer Cairngorms NP
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/planning-c...
@aprscotland.bsky.social
@scotlink.bsky.social
Planning Conditions & Enforcement How do they work for Nature?
Speakers
Kiera Chaman Oxford Uni
Stuart Bence Nature Scot
Ed Swales Enforcement Officer Cairngorms NP
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/planning-c...
@aprscotland.bsky.social
@scotlink.bsky.social
Planning Conditions and Enforcement
We will look at what planning conditions are, how they work and how they are enforced.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Nature & Planning Webinar Wed 5th Feb 7-8.30pm
Planning Conditions & Enforcement How do they work for Nature?
Speakers
Kiera Chaman Oxford Uni
Stuart Bence Nature Scot
Ed Swales Enforcement Officer Cairngorms NP
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/planning-c...
@aprscotland.bsky.social
@scotlink.bsky.social
Planning Conditions & Enforcement How do they work for Nature?
Speakers
Kiera Chaman Oxford Uni
Stuart Bence Nature Scot
Ed Swales Enforcement Officer Cairngorms NP
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/planning-c...
@aprscotland.bsky.social
@scotlink.bsky.social
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On Wednesday evening we have the third in our series of webinars on Planning and Biodiversity with @plandemoc.bsky.social
There's still space so register here! 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-net...
There's still space so register here! 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-net...
Nature Networks, LDPs and planning decisions
The NPF4 mentions the importance of Nature Networks in the Green Belts Policy and the Biodiversity Policy but what does this mean ...
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January 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
On Wednesday evening we have the third in our series of webinars on Planning and Biodiversity with @plandemoc.bsky.social
There's still space so register here! 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-net...
There's still space so register here! 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-net...
Job Opportunity: An ESRC-funded research project with Sheffield University that asks 'are new planning policies to protect biodiversity improving outcomes for biodiversity on the ground?'
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
Research Associate in Planning and Biodiversity
Research Associate in Planning and Biodiversity
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk
December 20, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Job Opportunity: An ESRC-funded research project with Sheffield University that asks 'are new planning policies to protect biodiversity improving outcomes for biodiversity on the ground?'
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...
Great to have our article on how
well National Planning Framework 4's nature policies are working on the ground featured in Scottish Planner magazine.
www.rtpi.org.uk/media/19012/...
well National Planning Framework 4's nature policies are working on the ground featured in Scottish Planner magazine.
www.rtpi.org.uk/media/19012/...
www.rtpi.org.uk
December 18, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Great to have our article on how
well National Planning Framework 4's nature policies are working on the ground featured in Scottish Planner magazine.
www.rtpi.org.uk/media/19012/...
well National Planning Framework 4's nature policies are working on the ground featured in Scottish Planner magazine.
www.rtpi.org.uk/media/19012/...
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Useful guidance about responding to a planning application from @plandemoc.bsky.social
www.planningdemocracy.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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December 4, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Useful guidance about responding to a planning application from @plandemoc.bsky.social
www.planningdemocracy.org.uk/wp-content/u...
www.planningdemocracy.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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It was another great webinar this evening from @aprscotland.bsky.social and @plandemoc.bsky.social on Wildlife Recording and Planning. Absolutely great.
Sign up for the next one in the series on 15 Jan here.
aprs.scot/event/joint-...
Sign up for the next one in the series on 15 Jan here.
aprs.scot/event/joint-...
APRS Webinars
We teamed up with Planning Democracy to run a series of Webinars.
aprs.scot
December 4, 2024 at 9:55 PM
It was another great webinar this evening from @aprscotland.bsky.social and @plandemoc.bsky.social on Wildlife Recording and Planning. Absolutely great.
Sign up for the next one in the series on 15 Jan here.
aprs.scot/event/joint-...
Sign up for the next one in the series on 15 Jan here.
aprs.scot/event/joint-...
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Thank you to all our speakers at last night's Winter Webinar with @plandemoc.bsky.social
Hear about first-hand experience of citizen science.
The webinar is now available to re-watch, with supporting resources 👇
+🎟️ Free places available on future webinars
Hear about first-hand experience of citizen science.
The webinar is now available to re-watch, with supporting resources 👇
+🎟️ Free places available on future webinars
APRS Webinars
We teamed up with Planning Democracy to run a series of Webinars.
aprs.scot
December 5, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Thank you to all our speakers at last night's Winter Webinar with @plandemoc.bsky.social
Hear about first-hand experience of citizen science.
The webinar is now available to re-watch, with supporting resources 👇
+🎟️ Free places available on future webinars
Hear about first-hand experience of citizen science.
The webinar is now available to re-watch, with supporting resources 👇
+🎟️ Free places available on future webinars
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Planning Democracy is on Bluesky! A brilliant grassroots organisation working on systemic democratic deficits, inequalities and environmental justice in land use planning in Scotland
We've just joined Bluesky!
What do we do? Find out by reading this wonderful blog by Kate from Cumbernauld & Carbrain Community Hub. It's about a workshop on planning rights we ran with our partners @aprscotland.bsky.social, with support from the Corra Foundation.
www.corra.scot/planning-rig...
What do we do? Find out by reading this wonderful blog by Kate from Cumbernauld & Carbrain Community Hub. It's about a workshop on planning rights we ran with our partners @aprscotland.bsky.social, with support from the Corra Foundation.
www.corra.scot/planning-rig...
Planning Rights Workshop at C&C Community Hub
Kate of C&C Community Hub in Cumbernauld writes about the importance of planning rights for communities when it comes to local development.
www.corra.scot
November 28, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Planning Democracy is on Bluesky! A brilliant grassroots organisation working on systemic democratic deficits, inequalities and environmental justice in land use planning in Scotland
A great listen with lots of information about a much loved mammal that is in decline. Includes hedgehog highways and why its important to make holes in fences and walls so hedgehogs can forage for food and find mates!
About to listen to @hedgehoghugh.bsky.social and @robinince.bsky.social on Radio 4 talking about #hedgehogs
November 28, 2024 at 11:20 AM
A great listen with lots of information about a much loved mammal that is in decline. Includes hedgehog highways and why its important to make holes in fences and walls so hedgehogs can forage for food and find mates!
Next Wednesday 4th Dec at 7pm we are running a webinar with @aprscotland.bsky.social colleagues. We have 3 great speakers explaining how to record different species from trees to fungi, why this is so important and how this helps to protect nature from developments. Sign up now!
bit.ly/3VeCZvB
bit.ly/3VeCZvB
Biodiversity and new development - Recording what is in our areas.
Building an understanding of what nature there is in different areas and and communities.
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November 27, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Next Wednesday 4th Dec at 7pm we are running a webinar with @aprscotland.bsky.social colleagues. We have 3 great speakers explaining how to record different species from trees to fungi, why this is so important and how this helps to protect nature from developments. Sign up now!
bit.ly/3VeCZvB
bit.ly/3VeCZvB
We've just joined Bluesky!
What do we do? Find out by reading this wonderful blog by Kate from Cumbernauld & Carbrain Community Hub. It's about a workshop on planning rights we ran with our partners @aprscotland.bsky.social, with support from the Corra Foundation.
www.corra.scot/planning-rig...
What do we do? Find out by reading this wonderful blog by Kate from Cumbernauld & Carbrain Community Hub. It's about a workshop on planning rights we ran with our partners @aprscotland.bsky.social, with support from the Corra Foundation.
www.corra.scot/planning-rig...
Planning Rights Workshop at C&C Community Hub
Kate of C&C Community Hub in Cumbernauld writes about the importance of planning rights for communities when it comes to local development.
www.corra.scot
November 27, 2024 at 8:49 PM
We've just joined Bluesky!
What do we do? Find out by reading this wonderful blog by Kate from Cumbernauld & Carbrain Community Hub. It's about a workshop on planning rights we ran with our partners @aprscotland.bsky.social, with support from the Corra Foundation.
www.corra.scot/planning-rig...
What do we do? Find out by reading this wonderful blog by Kate from Cumbernauld & Carbrain Community Hub. It's about a workshop on planning rights we ran with our partners @aprscotland.bsky.social, with support from the Corra Foundation.
www.corra.scot/planning-rig...