Guidance

Common land: checks and area changes for land management funding eligibility

Land cover checks and changes to eligible areas for the Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) or other land management schemes on common land.

From:
Rural Payments Agency and Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
17 August 2018
Last updated
2 November 2023 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Commons eligibility checks updated areas: 2023

HTML

Commons eligibility checks updated areas: 2022

HTML

Commons eligibility checks updated areas: 2021

HTML

Commons eligibility checks updated areas: 2020

HTML

Commons eligibility checks updated areas: 2019

HTML

Commons eligibility checks updated areas: 2018

HTML

Commons eligibility checks updated areas: 2017

HTML

Details

The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) regularly checks and updates its digital maps. This includes checking common land.

The tables attached show the area of land changes on common land eligible for BPS or other land management schemes each year. You’ll need to use the slide bar at the end of each table to see all the table columns.

Published 17 August 2018
Last updated 2 November 2023 + show all updates

  1. New commons data added to table.

  2. Additional commons data added to the 2023 table

  3. Additional commons data added to the 2023 table.

  4. New commons data added.

  5. New commons data added.

  6. Added 2023 Commons data page

  7. Additional commons data added to the 2022 table

  8. Additional commons data added to the 2022 table

  9. Additional commons data added to the 2022 table

  10. Additional commons data added to the 2022 table

  11. Added 2022 Commons data page

  12. Additional commons data added to the 2021 table

  13. New commons data added

  14. Additional commons data added to the 2021 table

  15. Updated Commons Eligibility data.

  16. Additional commons data added to the 2021 table

  17. Details of the 2021 Commons eligibility checks has been published.

  18. Additional commons data added to the 2020 table

  19. Updated list added to commons eligibility checks updated areas: 2020

  20. Additional commons data added to the 2020 table

  21. Additional commons data added to the 2020 table

  22. Additional commons data added to the 2020 table

  23. Additional commons data added to the 2020 table

  24. Link to the Common land grazing rights table has been updated from 2017 to 2018.

  25. Additional commons data added to the 2019 table

  26. Additional commons data added to the 2019 table

  27. Additional commons data added to the 2019 table.

  28. Updated commons list for 2019 with further changes and added in the column for authority area

  29. Additional commons data added to the 2019 'Commons eligibility checks updated areas' table.

  30. Additional commons data added to the 2019 table

  31. Additional commons data added to the 2019 table

  32. Links and text updated for 2019. HTML Table also updated.

  33. Details of all of the 2018 Commons eligibility checks updated areas are now included in the table.

  34. Commons example BPS calculation moved from this page and transferred to the BPS 2018 page.

  35. Additional commons data added to the 2018 table

  36. Additional commons data added to the 2018 table.

  37. Additional commons data added to the 2018 table

  38. Additional commons data added to the 2018 table

  39. The ‘Commons eligibility checks updated areas for 2018’ table has been updated. Details of both CL0011 Brackenthwaite Fell (Cumbria) and CL0016 North Hill, Sugar Loaf Hill And Worcestershire Beacon have been amended.

  40. Additional commons data added to the 2018 table.

  41. Additional commons data added to the 2018 table

  42. First published.