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• Applications withdrawn before referral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 2979 - To apportion rights of common exercisable over Letter & Penkestle Moors and Redhill & Blacktor Downs in the parish of St. Neot - July 2019
• Application 2973 - To register 0.136 hectares of common land to the west of the car park at Lerryn, in the parish of St. Veep, as a town or village green - February 2019
• Application 2967 - To register 4.841 hectares of land at Carrine Common and Goodern Common in the parish of Kea - October 2018
• Application 2966 - To register 2.912 hectares of land at Carn Marth in the parish of Lanner - September 2018
• Application 2965 - To register 0.411 hectares of land in the vicinity of Carn Brea Castle in the parish of Carn Brea - September 2018
• Application 2965 - Notice of Public Hearing re 0.411 ha of land in vicinity of Carn Brea Castle
• Application 2960 - To register 5.944 hectares of land at Trevellion Moor, Lowertown in the parish of Luxulyan - September 2018
• Application 2960 - Notice of Hearing - 31st October 2019
• 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 2941 - To de-register 0.122 hectares of land at The Granites, Tokenbury Corner, Pensilva, in the parish of St. Cleer - July 2017
• Application 2941 - Notice of hearing - 25th April 2019

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(5), (6) and (7) - Town or Village Greens, 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.