Should the Lake District NP sell Helvellyn and Striding Edge? Read the Foundation for Common Land’s response

Common Land Test and Trials Facilitator joins the team

Hill Sheep Husbandry in England: Adaptive to change in diverse ecosystems. A guide for all who hold an interest in land management on England’s hills.

The Foundation for Common Land (FCL) is delighted that their Patron HRH The Prince of Wales has attended a Summit to encourage cooperation between the cultural farmed landscape and nature conservation in the Lake District, a UNESCO World Heritage Site (WHS).

As part of the Our Common Cause: Our Upland Commons project development, a new exhibition of hand-printed portraits reflects on the traditional heritage of commons and reflects on what the future holds for this historic practice.

Defra is consulting on introducing legislation to ban the burning on deep peat (>40 cm in depth. The legislation is only intended to cover sites designated under European legislation, Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas.

Commons councils are democratic structures through which commoners, land owners and others with an interest in a common can work together to better manage agricultural activities, vegetation and the exercise of common rights.

It is now a year since the development work for this project started in earnest and the work is going well.

After a 3 year wait back BPS payments are on their way to Commoners

The Foundation for Common Land is dismayed that Cumbria County Council has approved the deregistration of ~ 3230 ha of common land owned by the Ministry of Defence at Warcop.

Before the second reading of the Agriculture Bill on 10th October 2018 we sent a briefing to all MPs.

Julia Aglionby recently gave a presentation on "Commoning: Change & Resilience" to 45 Commoners from Shropshire, Herefordshire, Wales and Worcestershire.

We attended the first day of the Public Inquiry into the application by the Ministry of Defence to deregister 10,000 acres of common land in the Pennines, Cumbria.

Every 7 years the boundary of Gidleigh Common is walked and the marked boundary stones are re-found and cleaned. Adrian Coulston attended and recorded the day in his Dartmoor Blog. It's well worth a read and the photos are marvellous.

Last Friday we submitted a proposal to Defra to test and trial future Environmental Land Management Schemes on commons.