Can you help as we challenge government over High Weald housing decision?

Case is of wider significance for protection of our countryside

CPRE Kent has set up a CrowdJustice page to help fund its challenge to the government’s decision to permit a housing development at Turnden in the High Weald National Landscape.

Following our pre-action protocol letter in relation to the granting of planning permission for 165 houses at Turnden, near Cranbrook, made by Housing Minister Matthew Pennycook on behalf of Housing Secretary Angela Rayner, we applied for a judicial review.

Our challenge is based on the enhanced duty of decision-makers under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 to seek to further the purpose of conserving and enhancing the national landscape.

CPRE Kent, the countryside charity, believes that the case is of wider significance for the standard of statutory protection that such landscapes enjoy.

The judicial review will of course cost money, so we are appealing to supporters and countryside-lovers to help fund that challenge. We have set a CrowdJustice target of £2,500 by Thursday, February 27.

It is important to stress again that our challenge is important not only for the High Weald but for National Landscapes across the country.

We would really appreciate your support with this, so if you can make a pledge in the fight to keep our countryside beautiful, please click here

Further, please do spread the word of our appeal far and wide. Thank you.

• To learn more about the Turnden decision, click here