Are you looking for more information about paths and open spaces?
There are fact sheets available to read, share, print or download to help you with issues concerning the following topics:
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Rights of Way/Footpaths
- Applications to record paths after twenty years use
- What to do about overgrown paths
- Parishes dealing with highway obstructions
- Highway verges - some practical points
- Information on highway verges
- Parish role in preparing the definitive map
- Path paraphernalia
- Requiring the highway authority to act on obstructed paths - section 130A of the Highways Act 1980
- Taking action on paths which are 'out of repair'
- Impassable paths
- Vehicular access across common land and village greens
- Guidance on making a successful village green application
- Public inquiry guidance
- By-laws for village greens, commons and open spaces
- A quick guide to registration
- Beating the bounds of your green or common
- Prosecuting an offence on your town or village green
- Driving or parking on your local green space
- Voluntary registration of a town or village green
- Unclaimed land and adverse possession
- Buildings, fences and other works on common land
- Commons Act 2006 part 1
- Registered common land and highways
- Commons Act 2006
- How to take action against unlawful encroachment and works on common land
- Vehicular access across common land and town or village greens
- Beating the bounds of your green or common
- Unclaimed land and adverse possession