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Registering historic events in the registers of common land or of town or village greens.
A right of common in gross (a deed) can be attached to a property so that the owner of the property can use the right of common.
Common user charge rates and how the charge applies to imports entering Great Britain through the Port of Dover and Eurotunnel.
When you need to apply for consent, how to apply, and the works that you can do without consent.
Apply to correct mistakes in the registers of common land or of town or village greens
How to set up a commons council to manage common land.
Hearing and inquiry notices and decisions for common land applications in 2023 and 2024
Record yourself as the person who is now entitled to use a right of common.
Create a new right of common and record it in the register of common land.
Sever rights of common from the property they’re attached to and transfer them to people specified in an order made by the Secretary of State.
How to know if land is common land, commoner and landowner rights over the land, and the groups you can set up to manage it.
Find out how you can apply to change the commons registers to record a new event.
The commons listed on this page now have more eligible area to allocate for certain years of the Single Payment Scheme (SPS), Hill Farm Allowance (HFA) 2010 or Uplands Transitional Payment (UTP).
Common Platform allows the police, judiciary, solicitors, barristers and criminal justice agencies to access and edit case information.
How to find out which sort of commons registrations authority you are and how you must maintain your registers.
Share a right of common in the register of common land or of town or village greens.
Correct mistakes in the common land or town or village greens register.
Hearing and inquiry notices and decisions for common land applications.
Hearing and inquiry notices and decisions for common land applications within 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Sever rights of common from the property they’re attached to and transfer them to a public body.
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