For people already here.
Read what arrivals are being told, and say what you ask of them.
This tool was written by people who are not from your place, about places that are yours. You can read it as a mirror of what arrivals are being told. You can also use it, if you want to, to say what you are asking of them.
What this site says about your place.
Each region page quotes public sources and, where it can, the words of the nations and communities themselves. It can be thin, wrong or out of date. Nothing on this site speaks for you, and nothing here is collected from you: this page has no form, sets nothing, and records nothing about visitors beyond the site’s ordinary page counts. A route for corrections is for the working group to decide; until it does, this page says so and does not pretend otherwise.
What the entries are, and what they are not.
The entries on this site are assembled from public sources and checked against pages that were opened. No nation or community named in an entry has reviewed it.
Where a nation’s own page could not be opened, the entry cites an archived copy or a secondary source, and its source label says so.
The people named in an entry have no public route yet to correct it. There is no public contact route yet; the working group will set one.
Nothing is collected here.
What arrivals are being told.
Read How to arrive as a statement of what outsiders are asked to do: begin with the people already there, visit through a door the place has opened, treat first claims as claims and not obstacles, and give back in the form the place asks. If your place would say it differently, the terms below are where to say so.
Where arriving in a place would harm the community already there, the honest answer is not to go.
Three ways to use it.
- Read the region page for your place and its first-conversations list as the public picture that arrivals see. Note what is missing. The regions are on the home page.
- Adapt the terms of arrival: print them, fill them in at a meeting, keep them. They are yours; they leave this site when you print them. A plain-text copy carries the same ten headings. At the head of the sheet it says:
If your nation has its own protocol, law or consultation process, use that. This sheet is for what is not already written elsewhere.
- Pass How to arrive to anyone who writes to you asking about land.
What this tool will not do.
It will not collect the names of arrivals and will not hold a list of applicants. It will never score anyone. It is not a screening service for communities and it will not become one without the community deciding so. It does not replace your laws, customs, assemblies or protocols. If your nation or community already publishes a consultation or development protocol, that comes first.
The group’s own rules for the framework, and the reasoning behind its commitment to reciprocity, are written out under ethics and values.
How rooted communities already say it.
Each example is a public page, quoted briefly, with a link and the date it was opened: 5 October 2026. They were chosen because their pages say something about arrival. None of them was asked, and none has reviewed how it is described here.
« L’accueil de nouveaux habitants est au cœur de nos préoccupations. »
Its newcomers page says the commune is glad when people come (« Nous nous en réjouissons »), and that welcoming new inhabitants is at the heart of its concerns (translation ours). It invites newcomers to bring an idea or a project, and says it will try to put them in touch with the people, associations or bodies who can support them.
Source: the commune’s newcomers page, fauxlamontagne.fr/nouveaux-arrivants. Opened 5 October 2026.
“On 12th June 1997, the Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust took ownership of the Isle of Eigg.”
“Residents attended workshops and open days to decide where new homes should be built.”
The page adds that the local community “is now involved in all the major decisions that affect the island”.
Source: the Trust’s community buyout page, isleofeigg.org/ieht/community-buyout. Opened 5 October 2026.
“We offer affordable housing options to residents through rental properties and the innovative Rural Housing Burden scheme.”
The page describes the Foundation as “a community-led initiative” that acquired the Knoydart Estate in 1999.
Source: the Foundation’s about page, knoydart.org/about-us. Opened 5 October 2026.
« Los montes vecinales en mano común son bienes indivisibles, inalienables, imprescriptibles e inembargables ».
Article 2 of the law (translation ours: indivisible, inalienable, not open to prescription and not open to seizure). Article 3 ties ownership and use to the neighbours who head an economic unit, keep an open house and live habitually in the settlements the use was traditionally attached to, and who carry on some activity connected with the monte according to the community’s customs. Article 16 says each community’s own statutes must set out « las condiciones de admisión de nuevos comuneros », the conditions for admitting new members.
Source: Ley 13/1989, de 10 de octubre, de montes vecinales en mano común, in the official gazette, boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A-1990-3358. Opened 5 October 2026.
“… the role of acequias as local institutions of government.”
The New Mexico Acequia Association says its governance project has resulted in “the adoption or update of over 400 sets of acequia bylaws”, and that its workshops are for “acequia elected officials and parciantes”.
Source: the association’s governance page, lasacequias.org/acequia-governance; home page lasacequias.org. Opened 5 October 2026.
These are the shape, not the template. Yours will be different.