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This notice provides a glossary of Scottish land law terms.
This is a brief factual explainer of how commonhold works. For more information, you may wish to visit the website of the Leasehold Advisory Service.
When you need to apply for consent, how to apply, and the works that you can do without consent.
Application form COV: registration of a freehold estate in commonhold land with unit-holders.
How to find out which sort of commons registrations authority you are and how you must maintain your registers.
Find out how you can apply to change the commons registers to record a new event.
How to know if land is common land, commoner and landowner rights over the land, and the groups you can set up to manage it.
Find out how you can apply to change the commons registers to record a historic event.
Application form CM2: revert a registered freehold estate in commonhold land back to a normal freehold estate during the transitional period.
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