Cumbria villagers oppose army bid to 'grab' common land

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Cumbria villagers oppose army bid to 'grab' common land
Villagers believe changing status of moorland 
near firing range will stop farmers grazing
<https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/14/cumbria-villagers-oppose-army-bid-to-grab-common-land>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/sep/14/cumbria-villagers-oppose-army-bid-to-grab-common-land

<https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nazia-parveen>Nazia 
Parveen N of England 
correspondent<https://twitter.com/NParveenG> @NParveenG  Fri 14 Sep 2018

The Warcop training area

Cumbrian villagers have accused the 
<https://www.theguardian.com/uk/ministry-of-defence>Ministry 
of Defence of attempting a “land grab” after a 
proposal to turn common land into a firing range.

A public inquiry has been launched over plans to 
remove the common land status from an area of 
moorland near Appleby-in-Westmorland.

Villagers believe transferring ownership of the 
area to the British army will leave farmers 
unable to graze a major part of the Pennines.

The taking of common land into private ownership 
has long been controversial and led to the 
creation of 19th-century conservation movements including the National Trust.

This is the first time since 1914 that the MoD 
has attempted to take over a piece of land designated as an enclosure.

It has applied to “de-register” 4,500 hectares of 
common land near Warcop training area. A 1965 act 
of parliament states that all commons and village 
greens should be listed on a register. According 
to the Open Spaces Society, which opposes the 
plan, deregistration would transfer ownership of the land to the MoD.

During the inquiry in Kendal, MoD barristers 
lined up against the Open Spaces Society, the 
Foundation for Common Land, the Federation of 
<https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/cumbria>Cumbria 
Commoners, the Friends of the Lake District and the Hilton Commoners.

Julia Aglionby, from the Foundation for Common 
Land, who presented a submission against the 
plans at the inquiry, said the law discussed 
during the two-day hearing was “unbelievably complex”.

She said: “The MoD have effectively said they 
don’t have to justify why they are doing it, they are just going to do it.

“Only 3% of England is common land and it goes 
back to the heart of people having access to 
countryside. It is a very emotional issue where 
effectively poor people have been thrown off the 
lands since the 16th century and now we are 
having a 21st-century version of this.”

She added: “By stopping the land being common 
land there is much less much protection for the 
wider public interest. If this happens people 
could build roads across it, there could be wind 
turbines, tank training areas, and that would not 
require consent from the secretary of state.”

The common land comprises three fells, Murton, 
Hilton and Warcop and amounts to 1% of all 
existing common land in England. The land lies 
within the North Pennines area of outstanding 
natural beauty on the route of the Pennine Way.

Immediately to the south is the 10,000-hectare 
Warcop training area, where about 5,000 soldiers, 
mostly from Catterick garrison in North 
Yorkshire, conduct live-fire exercises with rifles and mortars.

In 2002 the army decided to expand its training 
area and took out compulsory purchase orders for 
the grazing rights of 70 farmers on the three 
fells. That gave the MoD control of when it could use the land for exercises.

The MoD sells farmers grazing licences at about 
£2.40 a head for both the three fells and the 
mock battlefields of its training area. The 
farmers have to wait for days when the red flags 
warning of live-fire training are not up – now 32 
days a year, including a week at Christmas.

An MoD spokesman said: “We are not proposing to 
restrict public access in any way and have no 
plans to sell the land. We have applied to 
de-register land at Warcop training area to 
safeguard the MoD’s ability to train.”

The inquiry has been adjourned until 30 October 
and has been extended to another four days.

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