Reclaim Our Moors
@reclaimourmoors.bsky.social
South Yorkshire and Derbyshire residents working to bring local grouse moors into community ownership
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🥾 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.
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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...
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 ...
www.powertochange.org.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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...
And here's a piece I wrote on this: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...
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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...
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...
November 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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...
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...
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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/
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/
November 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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/
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.
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.
November 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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.
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.
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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...
andywightman.scot
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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...
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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 ...
www.powertochange.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:23 PM
3/ For more on why communities should have the powers to own environmental assets, read my blog here: www.powertochange.org.uk/evidence-and...
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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...
Write to your Labour MP – Reclaim Our Moors
www.reclaimourmoors.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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...
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'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...
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 ...
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
'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...
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...
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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:
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This session will introduce the Reclaim Our Moors project, and set out its aims.
🎟️ Buy tickets and find out more:
buff.ly/g9shP7n
October 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
📣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
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
#reclaimourmoors
October 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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
#reclaimourmoors
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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.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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...
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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 ...
www.powertochange.org.uk
September 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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...
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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/
hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2025... 1/
September 3, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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/
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!
August 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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!
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.
August 12, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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).
August 12, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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).
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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.
August 11, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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...
August 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
🚀 Look mum, we're on the beeb! Perhaps auntie wants to Reclaim Our Moors too?! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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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...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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...
Follow @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social for more updates
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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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...
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.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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...
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...
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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.
(Plot Spoiler.)
Not much.
Not a single grouse was spotted all day either.
August 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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.
(Plot Spoiler.)
Not much.
Not a single grouse was spotted all day either.
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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.
August 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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.
August 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
🥾 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.
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@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.
Songs were sung.
Speeches were made.
Not a single grouse was spotted or heard.
August 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
@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.
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
📣 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
July 29, 2025 at 9:09 AM
🛑 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
📣 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