Chris has been an environmental campaigner for 30 years, in both paid and unpaid roles. He first became active with his local Friends of the Earth group, while working at a recycling co-operative and studying for a Post Graduate Diploma in Environmental Impact Assessment. His main passion for campaigning has been around planning and transport and in the 1990s he helped coordinate an alliance of groups along the south coast - South Coast Against Roadbuilding (SCAR) - opposing the proposed Folkestone to Honiton trunk road. In 1995 he campaigned to better protect the South Downs and in 2001 was appointed by the South Downs Campaign, a network of over 160 organisations, to coordinate the campaign for a National Park. The South Downs became a National Park in 2010. In 2014 he chaired the partnership bidding for the area around Brighton to become a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, which was successfully achieved in 2014 (the first in the UK for over 40 years). From 2014 - 2019 he was employed by Campaign for Better Transport to support local groups fighting roads and bus cuts. He set up TAN in 2019 and seen it become the leading NGO challenging the Government's road building programme.