Are you concerned about cars, motorcycles, lorries or other large vehicles being driven and parked on your local open space?
We understand that such activity can prove a real nuisance to local people and can undermine the beauty and tranquillity of a local open space that is much loved and used.
We have a lot of experience in helping communities to tackle the problem of parking and driving on open spaces. We can help you to challenge what is happening in your local area and take tangible steps to do something about it.
One of the best ways to protect your local open spaces is to join the Open Spaces Society.
As a member, you can count on the support of our expert team based at our head office in Henley-on-Thames.
Depending on where you live, you may also have a local Open Spaces Society correspondent (our name for volunteer) who may be able to help you.
Protect your space from vehicle damage, join us today.
News about Parking & driving
2021 What a year!
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People power
So often success depends on the power of people coming together, writes our general secretary, Kate Ashbrook. Whether they are saving Bristol’s downs from car-parking, protecting London’s commons from commercial exploitation, or winning access to Worthing’s hinterland, the campaigning clout of local people is fundamental. And it always has been—witness the mass trespasses on Bolton’s…
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Grant a green: The Open Spaces Society’s call to local councils
Today we launch our Grant A Green campaign. The society is to urge local councils in England and Wales voluntarily to register their open spaces as town or village greens[1], to protect them from development and give local people rights of recreation there. It is more important now than ever to secure our green spaces. …
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Chesham Bois Common saved from degradation
We are delighted that a damaging plan to create a tarmac, vehicular accessway on Chesham Bois Common in the Buckinghamshire Chilterns has been withdrawn in the face of objections. Last year St Leonard’s Church Parochial Church Council applied for planning permission for an accessway to the parish centre as part of a larger development comprising…
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