Momentum building for Scottish-style access rights in England, says film OUR LAND, an amazing new film that interviews both landowners & members of the @righttoroam.bsky.social campaign, is out in cinemas from 8th May. Be sure to see it - and tell your MP to go! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Momentum building for Scottish-style land access rights in England, says film

Documentary makers seek to start ‘informed conversation’ in country where public is allowed on just 8% of land

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This is excellent news! Well done to all those who campaigned for it @guyshrubsole.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Government to lift paywall from large parts of the Land Registry

Exclusive: finding out who owns land will become simpler under plans to make the best use of green spaces and hit net zero targets

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🌱 🐦 Lush times at @sheffieldtransformed.org this weekend... We had a dream team there running a workshop on 'How we can use community land buy-backs to get land justice' and the room was packed! 💥

This week @simonforstroud.bsky.social & 20 other MPs made a valiant effort to strengthen Community Right to Buy powers to help communities own rivers, woods & moors Ministers didn't accept the amendments but sought to reassure that CRtB will apply to environmental assets 1/ bsky.app/profile/guys...

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Let communities own rivers, woods & moors! Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way. We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours: www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/

3/ For more on why communities should have the powers to own rivers, woods and moors, have a read of @tomchance.bsky.social's excellent letter here: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve... And here's a piece I wrote on this: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

Why communities need the power to own environmental assets - Power to Change

Imagine if as well as pubs and village halls, communities could dream big and purchase beloved rivers, woods, and peat bogs. A tweak to Labour’s forthcoming ...

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2/ Big thanks to @simonforstroud.bsky.social for tabling amendments 107 and 108 & to the 9 MPs who have so far added their support! These would extend the Community Right to Buy to environmental assets, provided the land isn't earmarked for development: publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...

Let communities own rivers, woods & moors! Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way. We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours: www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/

Let communities own rivers, woods and moors! Write to your MP about the upcoming Community Right to Buy laws. See our template letter here - www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... "Approaching Hartington via Sheen, Derbyshire" by Caff, released free of copyrights under Creative Commons CC0.

Folk often ask me what I would do by way of land reform legislation. Have a read of this blog to find out. It seems pointless to do much further detailed work since there is so little appetite for such measures andywightman.scot/2023/12/land...

Land for the People (Scotland) Bill - Land Matters

Introduction This blog introduces my proposals for a comprehensive Land Reform Bill - one that goes far further than existing proposals in reforming Scotland’s land governance. I plan to publish furth...

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3/ For more on why communities should have the powers to own environmental assets, read my blog here: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

Why communities need the power to own environmental assets - Power to Change

Imagine if as well as pubs and village halls, communities could dream big and purchase beloved rivers, woods, and peat bogs. A tweak to Labour’s forthcoming ...

powertochange.org.uk

2/ If you have a Labour MP, please write to them using this template letter created by @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social - tell Ministers to strengthen the Community Right to Buy so that communities can own environmental assets like rivers, woods & peat bogs: www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you...

'Communities must have the right to own environmental assets' Great letter from @tomchance.bsky.social of the Community Land Trust Network to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, asking her to amend the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Communities must have the right to own environmental assets | Community Land Trust Network

We have written on behalf of 100s of community land trusts to urge the government to add 'environmental interests' to the definition of Assets of ...

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📣Announcing @ReclaimOurMoors.bsky.social : How we can use community land buybacks to get land justice. This session will introduce the Reclaim Our Moors project, and set out its aims. 🎟️ Buy tickets and find out more: buff.ly/g9shP7n

Lovely to have space for discussing community ownership of Moscar Moor on BBC Sheffield this morning… You can listen in from 8.12 via www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... #reclaimourmoors

3/ A great example of a community group in England trying to acquire land with clear environmental benefits to the local community is @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social, who want to buy Moscar Moor in the Peak District - a natural flood defence, carbon store & 'green lung': www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sheffield campaigners launch bid to buy Moscar Moor for community

Moscar Moor is not for sale, but the group hopes to secure it under new Community Right to Buy law.

bbc.co.uk

2/ It's vital that the English Devolution Bill is amended in Committee Stage to include 'environmental benefits' alongside social & economic ones - so that communities can acquire environmental assets they value, like rivers, woods & natural flood defences: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...

Why communities need the power to own environmental assets - Power to Change

Imagine if as well as pubs and village halls, communities could dream big and purchase beloved rivers, woods, and peat bogs. A tweak to Labour’s forthcoming ...

powertochange.org.uk

In debate on new Community Right to Buy laws, great to see Labour MP @simonforstroud.bsky.social call for communities to be given chance to buy environmental assets, alongside social & economic ones - a point also made by Lib Dem MP @vikkislademp.bsky.social hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025... 1/

Thanks so much to Graham Wroe for his lovely write up in the Sheffield Telegraph. Do check out @telltherealtruth.bsky.social and join us reclaiming our moors!

Clive Swinsco@cliveswinsco.bsky.social · last yr.

Excellent coverage for #ReclaimOurMoors by @tellthetruthsheff.bsky.social in the #SheffieldTelegraph Join the campaign folks, and help to #BanDGS 🔥 @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @wildjustice.bsky.social @shefbirdstudy.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @wildsheffield.bsky.social

Thanks so much to @thestar.co.uk for this lovely double page spread in today’s paper to mark the start of the shooting season.

We were delighted to be joined on Sunday by three of our elected representatives from @sheffgreenparty.bsky.social, from left to right: Cllr Christine Gilligan-Kubo (Hillsborough), Cllr Marieanne Elliot (Gleadless Valley), Tessa Lupton (Ecclesall candidate), Cllr Douglas Johnson (City).

Went for a bimble up onto the local moors today and shocked by how much exposed peat there is. As mentioned on the @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social walk on Sunday exposed peat will quickly release CO2 whereas healthy peat is a great store for carbon.

🚀 Look mum, we're on the beeb! Perhaps auntie wants to Reclaim Our Moors too?! www.bbc.com/news/article...

A bid to buy Moscar Moor has launched which would take it from the assets of the Duke of Rutland and return its management to the local community, informed by ecologists. What’s not to like? Follow @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social for more updates www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sheffield campaigners launch bid to buy Moscar Moor for community

Moscar Moor is not for sale, but the group hopes to secure it under new Community Right to Buy law.

bbc.co.uk

Sheffield campaigners launch bid to buy Moscar Moor for the community Local Labour councillor Minesh Parekh said: “I look forward to people making use of the upcoming 'Community Right to Buy' legislation to bring mismanaged land into community hands” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sheffield campaigners launch bid to buy Moscar Moor for community

Moscar Moor is not for sale, but the group hopes to secure it under new Community Right to Buy law.

bbc.co.uk

A few of us went for a walk up there today to see what the Duke had been spending his grant money on. (Plot Spoiler.) Not much. Not a single grouse was spotted all day either.

Excellent protest walk today across part of the Duke's trashed moorland. The mismanagement is not just "alleged", it's glaringly obvious. And it's not only about wildlife: degraded peat moorland releases carbon and contributes to climate change, and heather burning causes the majority of wildfires.

🥾 Just shy of 200 people joined us up at Moscar Moor today to mark the start of the shooting season and united around our call for this huge grouse shooting estate in the Peak District to be taken into community ownership.

@reclaimourmoors.bsky.social organised a great trip up to Moscar Moors today. Songs were sung. Speeches were made. Not a single grouse was spotted or heard.

🛑 Stop grouse shooting 📣 Join our walk to protest against this cruel and environmentally destructive practice. 🗓 10.30am on Sunday 10th August 📍Redmires Reservoir Car Park 🥾 Hike ~3km easygoing trail to a meeting point where we will gather for speeches and music

👥 Lovely to get together for a proper in person natter after recent online conversations. 📜 We are hoping to pin down a collaboratively written constitution/manifesto type thing soon then get cracking with you all reclaiming our moors! 👋 Don't be shy saying hello if you want to get involved.