Nature needs people
Our general secretary, Kate Ashbrook, in her ‘Opinion’ in the autumn issue of Open Space, urges the government to recognise that nature cannot exist without people. ‘I have the best job in government’ declared environment minister Jenny Riddell-Carpenter MP to the Wild Summit on 9 September, in her first speech in her new role. We…
Land registered as common at Teneriffe in Cornwall
We celebrate the decision by the Planning Inspectorate to grant our application to register two small pieces of land (0.146 hectare) situated two miles south of Mullion in Cornwall. The land was provisionally registered as common land under the Commons Registration Act 1965, but late in the day the applicant withdrew the application and the…