UK We use some essential cookies to make this website work. Accept additional cookies Reject additional cookies View cookies. Hide this message. Home Housing and local services Safety and the environment in your community. Common land and village greens. There are rules on how you can use common land and town and village greens. Common land Common land is owned, for example by a local council, privately or by the National Trust.
Common land and village greens near you Find out where your local common land or village green is by contacting your local council. Each entry in the register includes: a description of the land who has rights to use it, and what those rights are who owns it, or who owned it when it was first registered Have your say on changes to common land Planned changes to common land will be advertised in local newspapers and put on signs around the land.
Related content Find your local park Rights of way and accessing land. Explore the topic Safety and the environment in your community. Is this page useful? Maybe Yes this page is useful No this page is not useful. CL the CL prefix defines the land as common.
Likewise, Ripley Green is register unit No. VG 19 the VG prefix defines the land as town or village green. The Registers are available for public inspection on Mondays to Fridays except public holidays between the hours of am and pm by prior appointment with the Commons Registration Section.
We can also provide certified copies of the Written Register and Definitive Map for a reasonable charge in paper or electronic format. For further information contact the Commons Registration Section. For enquiries about a specific Common or to make an appointment to view the Commons Registers, please telephone the Contact Centre, Tel: or email commons.
We can inform you as to procedures but we cannot give you legal advice. Please see our privacy notice for information on how we use your personal data. Further information on solicitors in your area. The answer to this is NO. You can either visit Merrow Depot and look at the Commons Register Map, or carry out an official search of the register. Normally, a solicitor acting on your behalf carries out the search. They will submit the form CON29 O and the appropriate fee to the relevant district or borough council.
For more information and to find out how to perform a local land charge search, visit the website of your district or borough council. We can also provide certified copies of the Written Register and Definitive Map for a reasonable charge. For further information on creating a right of way for vehicles over common land owned by Surrey County Council, please contact:.
A green is any land on which a significant number of inhabitants of any area has indulged in lawful sports and pastimes, for 20 years, as of right.
We believe there to be about registered greens in England and about in Wales, covering about and acres respectively. Want to protect your village green? Join the Open Spaces Society , and benefit from our expert advice. Here are some examples of cases where we have given guidance to individual, group and local authority members. Depending on where you live, you may also have a local Open Spaces Society correspondent our name for volunteer who may be able to help you.
Read our August charter for the promotion and protection of open spaces so that everyone in England can benefit. We published a revised third edition of our book Getting Greens Registered in response to the major changes in legislation. These guidance notes have kindly been prepared by The Friends of Coombe Wood, who successfully registered a green in Our former Vice-president, Edgar Powell wrote this guidance on preparing for and attending a public inquiry.
By-laws are rules made by a local authority or certain other public bodies under an enabling Act of Parliament, for the regulation, administration or management of a specific area. We publish a commentary about most decisions in the courts about town or village green registration cases. You can find a list of these cases here together with a hyperlink to our commentary or where there is none to a report of the case on the website of the British and Irish Legal Information Institute.
Dedicate land voluntarily as a town or village green by applying to have it included in the register of town or village greens. The government announced in August that they would increase the basic grant and the level of support available to planning groups in both urban and deprived areas.
Parish and community councils and other local groups may like to beat the bounds of their local common or village green on Rogation Sunday.
This provides guidance about vehicular access across common land and town or village greens following the repeal of section 68 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act Village Greens. Town and village greens are the essence of rural England and Wales.
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