Welcome to the Rooley Moor Neighbourhood Forum (RMNF) website.
Rooley Moor Neighbourhood Forum is a Registered Charity – Number 1165601. We created our forum because we share a common purpose and objective to protect and enhance our neighbourhood and to make it an area that is vibrant, socially inclusive, and generally the greenest, safest place to live, work and play that it can possibly be.
Forum members are individuals who either live, work, regularly pursue leisure activities (walking, horse riding, cycling, ornithology, fishing, etc.) or are interested in the Rooley Moor area. Members of the forum are all connected to the daily life of the neighbourhood and we know that sometimes the smallest of changes can make a big difference.
If you support our aim then please do join us and tell us what you think to help make the Rooley Moor neighbourhood the best possible place it can be.
There’s no fee, no commitment and no onus on you to do anything. All we ask is that you share our vision of making Rooley Moor neighbourhood a great place to live, work and play!
SAY NO TO SCOUT MOOR 2
29 July 2025 – Cubico’s Scout Moor 2 wind farm planning application is expected to be published just in time for the peak summer holiday season.
The Cotton Famine Road is no ordinary track
Carved by starving millworkers during the American Civil War, it stands not merely as a stone sett route, but as a living memorial – built from hunger, solidarity, and working-class resolve.
Now this historic landscape faces destruction
Cubico’s proposed Scout Moor 2 wind farm would industrialise Rooley Moor’s historic hills, scarring an irreplaceable heritage site in the name of greenwashing.
This is not renewable progress!
It is ecological vandalism dressed as virtue — doing nothing for carbon reduction or energy security, it simply enables corporate profit through higher energy costs.
Scout Moor 2 is the wrong project in the wrong place
True climate action respects what nature has to offer Nett-Zero, peat rich landscapes, history, and communities. Scout Moor 2 does not!
We owe it to those millworkers — and to future generations — to protect this place
To bury their legacy beneath steel towers, thousands of tonnes of concrete, and alien materials is not sustainability — it’s desecration.