Dave MacDougall is an IT consultant who lives in nearby Meltham which has also suffered its fair share of moor fires.
The 50-year-old says: “Rather than people just being able to go anywhere they like on the moors, I think what they should do is go to a controlled environment which has got a cornered-off area.
“So that means the fires or the barbecues can’t spread into the moorland and ruin the beautiful place that we live in.”
The Co-op has stores in both Marsden and Meltham as well as nearby Slaithwaite which has also had moor fires.
A spokesperson said: “We do not sell disposable barbecues in our stores situated in and within a one-mile radius of National Parks, which includes our Marsden and Meltham stores.”
The spokesperson said it was the first supermarket in the UK to take this approach.
In the absence of any ban, National Trust countryside manager for West Yorkshire Rosie Holdsworth says the public should stick to some basic rules to protect the countryside.
This includes not using any naked flame on the moors or any type of barbecue.
She says: “If you do see something that isn’t right, if you see smoke, if you see someone else having a barbecue, call it in to 999.
“The fire service would far rather come and put out a lit barbecue than put out a 300-hectare fire.”
