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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.
Understand the roles of accountable persons and the principal accountable person for a high-rise residential building, and what they must do.
Create a new right of common and record it in the register of common land.
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.
Information and advice on the Housing Revenue Account (HRA) and consents for disposal of land from the Housing Revenue Account.
Guidance on considering applications from persons who are subject to the habitual residence test.
Guidance on plan-making.
Renting a room in your home out - Rent a Room Scheme, types of tenancy or licence, rent, bills, tax and ending a letting
This is a brief factual explainer of how commonhold works. For more information, you may wish to visit the website of the Leasehold Advisory Service.
Find out how you can apply to change the commons registers to record a new event.
Common land, village greens and right to roam - find out your rights
Check if you're a joint tenant or tenants in common. Change from joint tenants to tenants in common, or tenants in common to joint tenants
Record yourself as the person who is now entitled to use a right of common.
Guidance on considering housing applications from persons who are subject to the habitual residence test.
Amend the register of common land or of town or village greens to reallocate a right of common which is attached to land.
Find out about changes to the deemed domicile rules for Income Tax and Capital Gains Tax from 6 April 2017.
Share a right of common in the register of common land or of town or village greens.
Find out if a claim of ownership by adverse possession can be made on common land and town or village greens, what effect it will have on the land and whether a claim can be opposed.
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