KEY MEASURES

• Enables the establishment of statutory commons associations with powers to sustainable manage commons by majority decision making.
• Prevents severance of common rights from the land to which they are attached.
• Modernises registration of common land and common rights - including allowing "missed" commons to be properly recognised, and correcting wrongly registered land.
• Reinforces existing protections against abuse, encroachment and unauthorised development.

TERRITORIAL EXTENT

The Bill extends to England and Wales.

COMMENTS

If you have any comments on the proposals you can email them to:

SLUgeneral@defra.gsi.gov.uk

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• The 2000 Rural White Paper for England committed to legislate on common land as soon as Parliamentary time allowed.
• The Bill builds on many of the proposals in Defra's Common Land Policy Statement 2002.