Cornwall Council is the registration authority for common land and town and village greens in Cornwall.

Prior to 1 October 2008 we worked under legislation brought about by the Commons Registration Act 1965. Under this legislation there is approximately 25,000 acres of common land in about 300 register units, and 55 registered units of town or village greens. This equates to 3% of the land in Cornwall, equalling the 3% of land in England registered as common land.

From 1 October 2008 a variety of measures became available for making applications to amend the commons and greens registers under the Commons Act 2006. In most cases a fee will be payable. Please see the Application Fees for more details.

Information on common land in Cornwall can be found using the links below:

• Map of Parishes containing common land
• Map of Parishes containing cancelled commons
• Finalised Common Land and Village Green Units in Cornwall
• Cancelled Commons and Village Greens in Cornwall
• Cornwall Case Sheet as at June 2009
• Application cancelled after referral
• Applications modified or cancelled in part
• Applications unaffected by decision
• Applications withdrawn before referral
• List of former Borough or Urban District Councils in Cornwall immediately prior to 1 April 1974
• Biological Survey (Defra)

Notices of Applications and Proposals concerning Common Land in Cornwall

• Application 2958 - To register 1.526 hectares of land at Cosgarne Common, twelveheads, in the parish of Chacewater - June 2018
• Application 2957 - To register 3.283 hectares of land at Maenporth Beach, in the parish of Falmouth - June 2018
• Application 2953 - To remove 0.058 hectares of land at Coombe Lea, Gover Valley, St. Austell, in the parish of St. Mewan - April 2018
• Application 2951 - To register common land at Lizard Recreation Ground in the parish of Landewednack as a town or village green - February 2018
• Application 2945 - To remove 12.411 hectares of land at Pendarves Woods, Pendarves in the parish of Camborne - August 2017
• Application 2945 - Pendarves Woods, Camborne. Notice of Public Inquiry: Commencing 11th December 2018, Pool Innovation Centre
• Application 2941 - To de-register 0.122 hectares of land at The Granites, Tokenbury Corner, Pensilva, in the parish of St. Cleer - July 2017
• Application 2939 - To de-register 0.112 hectares of land at Coombegate, Laneast Downs in the parish of Laneast - May 2017 

Decisions

• Section 6 - Creation of a new right of common;
• Section 8 - Apportionment of rights of common;
• Section 11 - Re-allocation of attached rights;
• Section 12 - Transfer of a right held in gross;
• Section 19 - Correction of a register;
• Schedule 2(2) - Non-registration of common land;
• Schedule 2(4) - Waste land of a manor not registered as common land;
• Schedule 2(6) and (7) - Buildings and other land wrongly registered as common land;
• Schedule 3 - Transitional and Historic Provisions
  

Further information may be obtained from Defra (please note this is a different web site address from the town and village greens web link), the Open Spaces Society and the Commons Re-registration web sites.