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Information and guidance on registering land as a town or village green.
Common land, village greens and right to roam - find out your rights
Charity Commission guidance on running a village hall.
Find out what visitors can and can't do on greens and how to maintain and de-register your land as an owner or local authority.
Application form to apply to register land as a town or village green.
Record a new piece of land in the register of town or village greens.
Application form to deregister, or to deregister and exchange, common land or 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.
Find out if you can legally drive across common land or town and village greens to access your property.
This paper examines how the 2008–2009 drought contributed to the transformation of governance of the management of natural resources
Advice to landowners in England on dedicating land as a town or village green and on alternative mechanisms to provide public access to land.
This paper constructs village typologies and outlines a village mapping approach that might help to understand village behaviour
How a church hall may be used for other charitable purposes if it is no longer needed exclusively for church purposes.
This study identified 4 types of village migration profiles based on labor and household migration data from 4,482 villages
Setting for this study was 83 villages without electricity in Mtema Traditional Authority, Lilongwe District, Malawi.
Randomized control trial to evaluate a programme in Bangladesh that transfers livestock assets and skills to the poorest women
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