Poet Pilot,
Do you subscribe to Action for Airfields. They issue a fairly regular bulletin that enable PPLs and others to attmpt to rally forces to fight the NIMBYs. The General Aviation Awareness Council also fights such things, as does AOPA. I feel that my annual membership to AOPA is worth paying - or there will be nowhere left to fly to?!
I always send letters of protest, and have campaigned for Rochester, the West Sussex Local Plan and others.
I will drop an e-mail or letter if you e-mail me the details.
Regards