Standish Community Forum
A community group doing good work.
Capable of representing the village. It is the best we have as there is no parish Council.

Chairman: Cllr. Mike Crosby.
WebSite  www.standish.org.uk
Meets 2nd Thurs each month in the Standish Community Centre 7pm. Church St. Any residents welcome.

Council For The Protection Of Rural England
Aims to try to find the most damaging applications quickly and ensure objections are made. A contact name for  the Lancashire Branch is
audrey@lancashirecpre.freeserve.co.uk

Friends Of The Earth
Known to oppose development. Again, no Wigan branch at the moment.
Web Site www.foe.co.uk

Help With Laws and Regulations

The Campaign for Planning Sanity has many legal and planning items on the web , but it helps to know what you are looking for. This site aims to be a simple aid to what legislation and regulation you should be looking to find, in relation to local problems. Many of the pages on this site link to this Campaign's site.

Not only offer to put you in touch with their members, if you want some really good advice from planners but offer to give free advice when there is a real need. Click above to check out their web-site.  (They didn't reply on Beechfield issues though.)
They have a local group  e-mail address  allstaff@nwnw.rtpi.org.uk