Reclaim The Land

In the first people’s protest, against the dwindling amount of common land, in 300 years more than 250 people reclaimed large tracts of Wisley aerodrome, 3 miles from St Georges Hill in Surrey for the last week in April. Currently ’set aside’ under EU policy it was left in better shape than when occupied thanks to the planting of trees & crops. The action was designed to reassert people’s control over how they live. The Land Is Ours’ manifesto for land reform includes new common spaces, a redirection of farm subsidies towards small scale high employment land use and revision of the planning & public inquiry processes which deny people access to the land.

"It's time to say what we want and find solutions - we're now going to set our own agenda."