Action to Protect Rural Scotland

About

We campaign on a number of issues including protection and accessibility of landscapes and countryside, greater planning protection for Green Belts and stricter environmental standards for data centres and battery storage installations. We are actively involved in national policy development and advocacy, and we take the insights from our community support work and use them to change policy for the better. By working both “outside track” with communities and “inside track” with policymakers, we bridge the gap between lived experience and legislation. For example, last year brought a major success when all four long-running Green Belt community campaigns APRS had supported as test cases saw planning refused. Evidence from these cases directly influenced stronger protections for Green Belts in the Planning System, securing greater safeguards nationwide after years of APRS campaigning. We partner with communities, grassroots campaigners, other charities, local authority, government

Where we work