Hi Nick. I really enjoyed the podcast and your refreshing approach to access/environmental activism.
The Right To Roam campaign frequently refers to the access rights in Scotland as being a good model for England. I wondered what discussions the campaign has had in Scotland and from this what ideas have been built into the campaign for R…
Hi Nick. I really enjoyed the podcast and your refreshing approach to access/environmental activism.
The Right To Roam campaign frequently refers to the access rights in Scotland as being a good model for England. I wondered what discussions the campaign has had in Scotland and from this what ideas have been built into the campaign for Right To Roam in England?
From an outside perspective it seems to differ in that the campaign to gain a Right To Roam in Scotland looked to turn the traditional "freedom" to take access to most land and water into a "right". Compared to the goal of the right to roam campaign to extend the CROW Act.
hey calum, yeh, we're in touch with various luminaries from the scottish movement, not least alistair macintosh, who wrote soil and soul, about the community buyout of an island up there, which has become the central bible for the morality of the land movement in england - yr bascially right, scotland looked to turn de facto access into a right, while in england we've been divorced from the land for so long, that even our de facto access has dwindled - so our job is a slightly tougher one!
Hi Nick. I really enjoyed the podcast and your refreshing approach to access/environmental activism.
The Right To Roam campaign frequently refers to the access rights in Scotland as being a good model for England. I wondered what discussions the campaign has had in Scotland and from this what ideas have been built into the campaign for Right To Roam in England?
From an outside perspective it seems to differ in that the campaign to gain a Right To Roam in Scotland looked to turn the traditional "freedom" to take access to most land and water into a "right". Compared to the goal of the right to roam campaign to extend the CROW Act.
hey calum, yeh, we're in touch with various luminaries from the scottish movement, not least alistair macintosh, who wrote soil and soul, about the community buyout of an island up there, which has become the central bible for the morality of the land movement in england - yr bascially right, scotland looked to turn de facto access into a right, while in england we've been divorced from the land for so long, that even our de facto access has dwindled - so our job is a slightly tougher one!