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Find out if you can legally drive across common land or town and village greens to access your property.
The definition of byway open to all traffic: the effect of Masters v Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions.
Find out when transactions involving land and buildings are exempt from VAT.
As an owner or manager of land in the coastal margin, find out about your responsibilities and how to manage public access.
As a local authority you must review your rights of way improvement plan every 10 years.
Casework under the Department of Transport Circular 1/94, Transport and Works Act 1992, stopping up and diversion of footpaths and bridleways crossing railways and tramways.
When an order making authority submits an order for determination, they also need to provide a number of supporting documents.
How to make changes to the legal status of a public right of way.
Rules for using the road, including general rules, overtaking, road junctions, roundabouts, pedestrian crossings and reversing.
This page tells you how to identify common constraints and designations within your forestry project’s proposal area and sets out what you must consider or do in relation to individual constraints.
The Countryside and Rights of Way act 2000 allows access authorities to make agreements with landowners or occupiers for access to land for the land to be opened up, improved, repaired or maintained. The Planning Inspectorate deals with appeals against...
General guidance to inspectors on public rights of way matters.
This report documents the inception phase of a 3-year pilot study aimed at developing an innovative approach
Advice notes for rights of way casework.
Access historical information about properties and people recorded in the 1862 Act Register.
Human rights arguments
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