Town and village greens
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Land must be identified for potential development to defeat an application to register a town or village green
The Commons Act 2006 provides a right to apply for the registration of a town or village green…
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Supreme Court upholds registration of a quayside as a green
The case concerned the registration of a concrete apron close to the water’s edge in a working port
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Statutory incompatibility when registering town and village greens
What constitutes “statutory incompatibility” when dealing with applications to register greens?
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What qualifies as a trigger event, preventing registration of a green?
What does it take to identify land for potential development in a development plan document?
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Village green test case goes to Court of Appeal
The case is the first to test rules dating from 2013.
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Should decisions to register land as a green, or not, be taken in public?
A challenge on the ground that the council had not held the entire decision-making process in public
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A quayside operated by a private landowner is confirmed as a green
Farmland, golf courses, car parks, playgrounds, parks and a quarry have qualified as village greens
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Land use: the difference between acquiescence and permission is key
Suzanne Gill considers whether the illegal use of land can stop development – and if so, for how long?
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What qualifies as a trigger event that prevents registration of a green?
The Growth and Infrastructure Act 2013 prevents applicants from applying to register land as a green where a “trigger event” has occurred in relation to that land.
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Warning signs prevented use from qualifying as use “as of right”
Unauthorised use of land is not use “as of right” if a landowner has erected signs in a visible position clearly indicating his objections to such use. Thus spake the…
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A quay, whose owner was not a statutory body, has qualified for registration as a green
In 2008, following the threat of enforcement action by the Health and Safety Executive, the owner and operator of the port of Mistley erected a fence along the quayside to…
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R (on the application of Allaway and another) v Oxfordshire County Council
Town and village green, Registration