Commons Act 2006

This Act makes it easier to register land as common land (including village greens). Land can be registered if it has been used by local people for recreation ‘as of right’ (ie. without permission, force or secrecy) for at least 20 years, giving the land legal protection from development.

This definition is abridged from A – Z of tree terms: A companion to British arboriculture.
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