sennadog - I think you miss the point. The govt. make such things hard to see if anyone really cares. If all it took was an e-mail, the government's mail server would be dead now!
I'm putting pen to paper as this is a rule that not only benefits GA greatly, but is also to my mind very 'English'. Why shouldn't we hold a car-boot sale, or a motor-cross, or a fly-in on a bit of land we happen to own, without having to go through the planning process - if we only do it very occasionaly, we're not likely to upset too many people, nor are we going to clog up the planning system with piddling little local events.