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Find out if you can legally drive across common land or town and village greens to access your property.
Guidance for electricity licence holders on obtaining permission from owners and / or occupiers of land in order to legally install an electric line.
Decisions and maps and modification notices for rights of way orders.
Use of correct notation on definitive map modification orders and public path orders for order making authorities, including combines orders.
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.
How to object or make representations to a public rights of way order
Responding to suspected breaches of planning control.
This series brings together all documents relating to Section 28 Directions
Decisions and maps for rights of way orders published within 2020, 2021 and 2022
General guidance to inspectors on public rights of way matters.
When you need to apply for consent, how to apply, and the works that you can do without consent.
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