1 Session 5 Registration: Commons Act 2006, part 1 The opportunities under the Commons Act for correcting the register, and the registration of lost commons and how to go about it

2 Why is this important? To add extra land for public access The land gains additional protection Local knowledge invaluable

3 Nine Pioneer Areas  Blackburn with Darwen borough  Cornwall county  Cumbria  Devon county  Herefordshire district  Hertfordshire county  Lancashire county  Kent county  North Yorkshire

4 Applications Applications under Part 1 of the Commons Act 2006 Making an application  Decide what type of application you want to make  Contact your registration authority to obtain the relevant application form  Complete the application, including evidence, maps  Submit application form to your commons registration authority

5 Type of application  Part 1 enables applications to amend the registers of common  land and town and village greens  To record new events section 6 – 15  To record historic events  To rectify the register - Non registration and mistaken  registration  From October 2014 section 19(2)(a) and paragraphs 6-9 schedule 2 are in force

6 Registering land as common land - 1

7 Registering land as common land - 2

8 Application under schedule 2 (4) All the forms available on the CRA websites in the nine pioneer areas are a standard format, ten parts Four are of particular importance Part 5:Reason for applying to correct the register Part 6:Description of the land Part 8:List of supporting documentation Part 9:Other information relating to the application information

9 Schedule 2 (4) Commons Act 2006: Schedule 2(4) See information sheet in folder

10 Criteria  Provisional registration, objection and cancellation  Manorial status  Current status as ‘waste land of a manor’  List of supporting documents

11 Cornwall – Carmine Common  First decision made under Schedule 2 (para 4)  Land has been added to the common land register

12 Guidance  OSS information sheets: publications-and-information-sheets/ publications-and-information-sheets/ Opportunity-to-rescue-lost-commons.pdf  Planning Inspectorate nland/decisions

13 Guidance  Defra: and-registering-to-use hment_data/file/245692/pb13660-applicants-pilot-guidance.pdf  Commons re-registration website: