Part 1 of the Commons Act 2006 allows amendment of the registers of common land and town and village greens: new information can be added or existing information can be amended. The types of amendments which can be made fall into three categories: new events, anomalies and mistakes and unregistered events. Any future events affecting the registers will only be effective in law when they have been recorded in the register. Further advice can be found in the documents below.
Part 1 was implemented by The Commons Registration (England) Regulations 2014, which came into force on 15 December 2014. Part 1 has now been fully implemented (except section 25 electronic registers) in:
- Cumbria
- North Yorkshire
- Devon (not including unitary authorities)
- Kent (not including unitary authorities)
- Cornwall
- Hertfordshire
- Herefordshire
- Lancashire (not Blackpool)
- Blackburn with Darwen
And has also been partially implemented in all other areas in England but only for the purpose of five types of corrective applications. Those applications are: section 19(2)(a) to correct mistakes made by a registration authority, and paragraphs 6, 7, 8 and 9 of Schedule 2 to remove ‘buildings’ or ‘other land’ that was wrongly registered as common land or town or village green. These authorities will continue to process applications under the Commons Registration Act 1965. Full commencement of Part 1 will be reconsidered when resources permit, which will be during the next Parliament (from 2015) at the earliest.
Part 1 documents
Statutory instruments
The Commons Registration (England) Regulations 2014
The Commons Act 2006 (Commencement No. 7, Transitional and Savings Provisions) (England) Order 2014
