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  • Carrying out works on common land

    When you need to apply for consent, how to apply, and the works that you can do without consent.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 2 others
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  • Town and village greens: how to register

    Information and guidance on registering land as a town or village green.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
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  • Managing 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.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Common land and town or village greens: access your property by vehicle

    Find out if you can legally drive across common land or town and village greens to access your property.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Common land and town or village greens: how a claim of ownership can affect the land

    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.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Manage your town and village greens

    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.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Doorstep and Millennium Greens: making changes

    How to consult Natural England when proposing changes to your green.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Commons registers: how to apply to make changes

    Overview for people who want to apply to make a change to the registers of common land or the registers of town and village greens.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Common land notices and decisions

    Hearing and inquiry notices and decisions for common land applications.

    • From: Planning Inspectorate
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  • Common land declarations of exempt works

    Declarations of exempt works for common land.

    • From: Planning Inspectorate
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  • Commons registers: apply to record new events

    Find out how you can apply to change the commons registers to record a new event.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Set up a commons council

    How to set up a commons council to manage common land.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Commons registers: apply to rectify them

    Apply to correct mistakes in the registers of common land or of town or village greens

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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  • Commons registers: apply to record historic events

    Find out how you can apply to change the commons registers to record a historic event.

    • From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs and 1 others
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