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Commoners Rights (legal thing) - has anybody got a clue about this?

bimble

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Commoners Rights mean your right to do certain things on common land, like graze sheep or collect fallen wood and i have no idea what else.
The rights seem to adhere to properties not people, and they have to have been granted before 1969.
I really want to find out if i have them (house adjoins common land and think i might).
Anybody?
Step one has led to me the need to fill in a form called CON29O which is nowhere to be found, doesnt seem to exist.
 
bimble said:
Commoners Rights mean your right to do certain things on common land, like graze sheep or collect fallen wood and i have no idea what else.
The rights seem to adhere to properties not people, and they have to have been granted before 1969.
I really want to find out if i have them (house adjoins common land and think i might).
Anybody?
Step one has led to me the need to fill in a form called CON29O which is nowhere to be found, doesnt seem to exist.
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You should immediately assert your rights by herding sheep this way and that.
 
You should talk to a conveyancing solicitor, I think. There's a chance you might have got some info if/when you got them to do "the searches" when buying it. However it sounds like CON29O is optional.

Anyway they are well placed to do these searches and it looks like non-legal types are not. You might find a third party service that specialises in it, but I don't think a single set piece of conveyancing would be all that expensive.
 
mauvais said:
You should talk to a conveyancing solicitor, I think. There's a chance you might have got some info if/when you got them to do "the searches" when buying it. However it sounds like CON29O is optional.

Anyway they are well placed to do these searches and it looks like non-legal types are not. You might find a third party service that specialises it, but I don't think a single set piece of conveyancing would be all that expensive.
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i will do that, email the man who helped me buy the house, ask what it would involve for him to help me navigate, its basically another local authority search, just not a standard one, and does seem to be set up (the system) for use by solicitors not commoners.
 
Is there anything you're particularly keen to do e.g. graze sheep, cut peat, or take animals?

Whilst you can't (usually) sell the rights independent of the land, you might me able to lease them. Could be a nice little earner if there's good fishing or shooting anywhere?
 
My neighbour got visited by the police for his wood collecting behaviour, that's what's prompted this, he was made to sign something promising to never do it again. I only pick up bits and pieces very occasionally but yeah, want to know, and can i get sheep. My house deeds specifically say i am not allowed to keep pigs, that's all.
 
Some of the pygmy goats can be massively entertaining, even so. My friends would like some.

[too wall or fence climby for here, we have a Faaaast road outside, the feds have a speed camera trap just long from me, 80 to 90 mph not uncommon on a 60 by johhny rep in his beamer - with a couple of places as low as a 40 limit]
 
Your local council will have the register. Thereafter you probably need to speak to the Planning Inspectorate but check the register first to see whether any grazing rights etc could be construed to be yours. (Unlikely though).
 
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