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...

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...

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

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...

Hey, they clipped the interview, so it now has its own page here - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

BBC have clipped the interview which can be found on it's own page here - www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Hey, we got the time wrong above... the interview was on at 8.12am which is 2 hours and 12 mins into the show on 26th - sadly by the time we realised the mistake it was too late to edit the above.

Can you try again? Link works fine from this end

'Red Grouse male in summer' image licensed from Shutterstock 26/10/25

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...

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...

Hey John, thanks for asking. We will likely be fundraising sometime soon - we've offered the Duke £1 for the moor so far and Dan's mum has said she'd happily cover that.

If you'd like to stay in the loop, drop us a line to [email protected] and we can let you know when more fun is afoot.

The copyright on the above photo of moscar moor is owned by Tim Taylor and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.