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Sign in to the Rural Payments service to make a rural payments claim or update your details. Find out how to register for an account.
Find protected areas, check if your business or home is near one and what environmental restrictions apply.
Rights of way and right to roam - access rights of way, open access and permissive access land, use common lands, the Countryside Code, report problems.
You have the right to access some land for walking or certain other…
You can walk on all public rights of way. Some public rights of way are…
You can access some land across England without having to use paths - this…
You may be able to access private land if the landowner has agreed to let…
Rural Development Programme for England - funding and current schemes.
Application form to purchase a River Thames lock and weir fishing permit.
Single application form which allows for both highways statements and declarations, and landowner statements.
Application form for consent to construct works on common land: Commons Act 2006, Section 38 and the National Trust Act.
Appeal against a decision by your local council to reject your application for a right of way - how to appeal, what documents to submit, who can comment on your appeal and how long it takes.
Find nature reserves, national parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and green spaces
When an order making authority submits an order for determination, they also need to provide a number of supporting documents.
Application form to apply to register land as a town or village green.
Application form to deregister, or to deregister and exchange, common land or town or village greens.
Correct historical errors in the registers by either adding land to, or removing land from, the registers.
Appeal against a hedgerow notice - deadlines, how to appeal and how long it takes to get a decision
Correct mistakes in the common land or town or village greens register.
Create a new right of common and record it in the register of common land.
Use this form to tell us about a change you would like to make to your Grant Funding Agreement.
Record yourself as the person who is now entitled to use a right of common.
Record the transfer of ownership of a right of common in gross in the register of common land or of town or village greens.
Sever rights of common from the property they’re attached to and transfer them to a public body.
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