The above screenshot shows the initial plan that I have made for my project – something that is easily actionable and which is also effective and manageable. I am really pleased with the steps that I have outlined, and will start to work on them right away – focussing initially on the Social and Publicity and Petition sides, as these will allow me to look further and start to reach out to other organisations, once I have a platform to work from.
I have decided that my petition will be to Rewild All Brownfield and Common Land in England – as this is a broad petition which should gain much traction from a wide range of people and organisations, as well as being something that is actually, fairly easy to achieve – it just requires some political and public will, which is what my project aims to create. As such, I have started to look into different land ownership in the UK (in the following example, I have focussed the maps on Ipswich, as that is my immediate locality), in order to see what is common land, and where we could start to rewind without needing any landowner permission. Although I haven’t yet been able to find that out yet, I have discovered who a few local landowners are and how much the land sold for, thanks to the Who Owns England and Private Eye Land Ownership maps:
Finding out which land we are able to rewind without permission is going to take quite a lot of research, and I don’t have the time to do that at the moment. However, I will start to formulate the petition (using either Change.org (as I have used this before), Gov.co.uk or 38 Degrees) and work on content for the instagram page, working out what types of media I want to publish also – photos, infographics, reels, videos, etc.
Image Sources:
Who Owns England. (N.D) Who Owns England Map. [Screenshot] Available at: http://map.whoownsengland.org (accessed: 15 December 2021)
Private Eye. (2021) Selling England (And Wales) By the Pound. [Screenshot] Available at: https://private-eye.co.uk/registry (accessed: 15 December 2021)
