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Part 1 of the Commons Act 2006 Guidance to Applicants in the Pioneer Implementation Areas 1.1.1 www.gov.uk/defra Part 1 of the Commons Act 2006 Guidance to applicants in the pioneer implementation areas June 2013 © Crown copyright 2008 - 2013 You may re-use this information (not including logos) free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government Licence. To view this licence, visit www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or e-mail: [email protected] This document/publication is also available on our website at: www.gov.uk/common-land- management-protection-and-registering-to-use#commons-registration Any enquiries regarding this document/publication should be sent to us at: [email protected] PB 13660 Version 1.3 Contents 1 Foreword .................................................................................................................. 1 2 How to use this guidance ....................................................................................... 2 2.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................ 2 2.2 Deciding what type of an application you want to make ........................................ 2 2.3 Deciding your application path: removing land from the registers ......................... 9 3 About the commons registers ............................................................................. 13 3.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 13 3.2 The commons registers ....................................................................................... 13 3.3 The origin of the commons registers ................................................................... 14 3.4 Copies and inspection of the commons registers ................................................ 15 4 About the Commons Act 2006 ............................................................................. 17 4.1 Part 1 of the Commons Act 2006 ......................................................................... 17 4.2 Applications ......................................................................................................... 18 4.3 Pioneer areas ...................................................................................................... 20 4.4 Understanding the legislation .............................................................................. 21 5 Declarations of entitlement to rights of common ............................................... 24 5.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 24 5.2 Procedure ............................................................................................................ 25 6 Making an application ........................................................................................... 27 6.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 27 6.2 Do you need to make an application? ................................................................. 27 6.3 How to make an application ................................................................................ 28 6.4 Supporting your application ................................................................................. 31 6.5 What happens to your application ....................................................................... 34 6.6 Withdrawing your application ............................................................................... 37 6.7 Amending your application .................................................................................. 37 6.8 Referral to the Planning Inspectorate .................................................................. 38 6.9 Hearings and public inquiries .............................................................................. 40 6.10 Site inspections ................................................................................................... 41 6.11 Challenging a determination ................................................................................ 41 7 New event applications under sections 6 to 14 .................................................. 42 7.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 42 7.2 Section 6: creation of new rights of common ....................................................... 42 7.3 Section 7: variation of an existing right ................................................................ 45 7.4 Section 8: apportionment ..................................................................................... 47 7.5 Section 9 and Schedule 1: severance ................................................................. 51 7.6 Section 10: attachment ........................................................................................ 53 7.7 Section 11: re-allocation of attached rights .......................................................... 54 7.8 Section 12: transfer of rights in gross .................................................................. 56 7.9 Section 13: surrender and extinguishment .......................................................... 58 7.10 Section 14: statutory dispositions ........................................................................ 60 7.11 Section 15: town or village greens ....................................................................... 64 8 Historic event applications under Schedule 3 .................................................... 71 8.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 71 8.2 Responsibility to act during the transitional application period ............................ 71 8.3 Duration of the transitional application period ...................................................... 72 8.4 Historic creation of right of common .................................................................... 73 8.5 Historic variation of a right of common ................................................................ 75 8.6 Historic apportionment of a right of common ....................................................... 77 8.7 Historic severance of a right of common ............................................................. 79 8.8 Historic transfer of a right held in gross ............................................................... 82 8.9 Historic surrender or extinguishment of a right of common ................................. 83 8.10 Historic statutory disposition ................................................................................ 85 8.11 Late amendments after the close of the transitional application period ............... 87 9 Rectification applications for correction and rectification of the registers ..... 89 9.1 Introduction .......................................................................................................... 89 9.2 Schedule 2, paragraphs 2 to 5: adding land to, or changing the status of land on, the register ..................................................................................................................... 89 9.3 Schedule 2, paragraphs 6 to 9: removing land from the register ......................... 96 9.4 Section 19: correction of the register ................................................................. 103 10 Bibliography and contacts ................................................................................. 108 10.1 Bibliography ....................................................................................................... 108 10.2 Contacts ............................................................................................................ 110 10.3 Glossary ............................................................................................................ 111 10.4 Section 11 of the Inclosure Act 1845 (as amended) .......................................... 114 Annex A: Commons exempted under section 11(1) of the Commons Registration Act 1965 115 Annexe B: Specimen commons registers ................................................................... 116 1 Foreword 1.1.1 The Commons Act 2006 is the first ever omnibus legislation to deal with common land. It is only the second piece of Government legislation to deal with common land in nearly 100 years. The Act radically changes the landscape for the registration, management and protection of common land. 1.1.2 Until the 1960s, the extent of common land was a matter of local knowledge and conjecture. The Commons Registration Act 1965 introduced a new requirement for a permanent, conclusive record of the extent of common land and town or village greens and rights of common exercisable over any such land. Local authorities were charged with drawing up the commons registers. Part 1 of the Commons Act 2006 will enable these commons registers to be brought up-to-date, so that they once again become a reliable record of extent of land and rights, but also ensure that they are kept that way, so that, for the future, any event which ought to be entered in the registers must be registered. 1.1.3 This guidance is directed to those wishing to apply for changes to the commons registers under the Commons Act 2006. It explains how the registers are maintained, in what circumstances applications may be
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