The Pilot Areas

 

Implementation Timetable For Part 1

The implementation of Part 1 in England is currently underway in seven Pilot Areas: Cornwall; Devon; Herefordshire; Hertfordshire;

Kent; Lancashire; and Blackburn with Darwen. The pilot implementation is now expected to take three years (Oct 2008 – Sept 2011).

It had, meanwhile, been DEFRA’s intention that the Part 1 provisions should be ‘rolled out’ in three stages across England:

 

• From October 2010: South East; South West; East of England; London

 

• From October 2011: West Midlands; North West

 

• From October 2012: East Midlands; Yorkshire and Humber; North East

 

As the result, however, of a recent DEFRA Review (Feb 2010), the decision on how and when wider implementation should proceed will

be delayed until after September 2010. This means that the ‘roll-out’ cannot now be commenced until October 2011 at the earliest.

A map of the above regions can be downloaded at: www.gos.gov.uk/aboutusnat/ (see link at foot of page). For details of the current

proposals for the implementation of Part 1 in in Wales click HERE.

 

Pilot Authority WebPages

The Schedule 2 application process is administered by the relevant Commons Registration Authority (CRA). Each of the authorities in the Pilot Areas is required to maintain a Website providing information on Part 1, where copies of the application forms, etc should also be available for downloading. Please note that the application forms are specific to each area and are valid only for that area. They will therefore need to be obtained directly from the relevant CRA or CRA Website.

 

          Blackburn                    Devon                            Hertfordshire                    Lancashire

          

          Cornwall                      Hereford                        Kent                                  

 

Case Assessment Sheets (Pilot Areas)

The Search Sheets available on this site provide a list for each county area of the CL units that may be eligible for re-registration. The Case Assessment Sheets below offer an initial assessment for the Pilot Areas − based on the register entries and (where relevant) the Commons Commissioners’ Decision Letters − of the CL units that come within the criteria defined by Schedule 2(4)(3)−(5). If this land is still ‘waste land’, and is or was at some time in the past ‘of a manor’, it satisfies all of the requirements of Schedule 2(4). In this case, it may now be re-registered as common land.

 

          Cornwall                      Hereford                         Kent                                   Summary Table (Assessment Sheets)

 

          Devon                          Hertfordshire                 Lancashire & Blackburn