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As the owner or occupier of land with a public right of way across it, you must keep the route visible and not obstruct or endanger users.
Find out if you can legally drive across common land or town and village greens to access your property.
Your responsibilities and rules to follow for watercourses on or near your property, and permissions you need to do work around them.
Common land, village greens and right to roam - find out your rights
Single application form which allows for both highways statements and declarations, and landowner statements.
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.
As a land owner or manager, find out about your responsibilities and how to manage public access.
How to sell biodiversity units to developers for biodiversity net gain: explore the market, register a gain site and record allocations.
Find a property and get its title plan, title register and see who owns it
About your property boundaries, working out your boundary lines, boundaries and neighbour disputes, agreeing who's responsible for walls and fences
Sign up to HM Land Registry's free Property Alert service to help protect your property from fraud.
How to search for information about property and land in England and Wales - find out who owns it, how much was paid for it, how to get a scanned copy of the deeds and how to check the property...
Find out when transactions involving land and buildings are exempt from VAT.
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
Find government-owned property, buildings or land that's available to rent or buy, or contest its use
How to protect your home, land or other property from fraud
Registering land or property in England - first time registration, transfer of ownership, changing your details on the register, where to register in Scotland or Northern Ireland
The sale of land is determined by the potential number of homes that a housing developer or registered provider can build on a given site.
When you need consent for a proposed operation or management change on land in a SSSI and how to apply.
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