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

Before 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.  As well as 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.  These were 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.

Commons and Village Green applications representations Privacy Notice

• Privacy Notice for people who make representations about Commons and Town and Village Green applications

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• Applications withdrawn before referral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 2994 - To remove 14.572 ha of wrongly registered common land at Nance and Illogan Woods in the parish of Portreath - January 2020
• Application 2993 - To transfer a right of common held in gross, exercisable over CL 127 and CL 128, Tawna and Treslea Downs - January 2020
• Application 2985 - To remove 2.482 hectares of wrongly registered common land at Trevarrack in the parish of St. Ives - November 2019
• Application 2966 - To register 2.912 hectares of land at Carn Marth in the parish of Lanner - September 2018

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)
• Open Spaces Society 
• Commons Re-registration