Town Or Village Green - Notice Of An Application For The Registration Of Land

Form 45 Commons Act 2006 - Section 15(1)
Notice of an application for the registration of land as a Town or Village Green

To every reputed owner, lessee, tenant or occupier of any part of the land described below, and to all others whom it may concern.
Application has been made to the City & Country of Swansea by Mrs Rowan Rees, Dr Andrew Rees and Dr Richard Beynon under section 15(1) of the Commons Act 2006 and in accordance with the Commons (Registration of Town or Village Greens) (Interim Arrangements) (Wales) Regulations 2007 (“the 2007 Regulations”). The application seeks the inclusion in the register of town and village greens of the land described in the Schedule below which is claimed to have qualified for registration as a town or village green on 10th September 2024 by virtue of the following justification:

The application seeks to formalise and protect the long-established use A significant number of local inhabitants have indulged ‘as of right’ in lawful sports and pastimes on the land for a period of over 20 years; and they continue to do so at the time of the application. 

Access to the land for lawful sports and pastimes has never been prohibited and permission to use the land for the aforementioned purpose has never been sought from, or granted by the landowners to the best of knowledge of those persons known to have indulged in lawful sports and pastimes and these persons continue to indulge in the aforementioned pastimes on the land ‘as of right’.

The application which includes a plan of the land proposed for registration may be inspected at the following office:

City & County of Swansea Civic Centre Oystermouth Road Swansea SA1 3SN

Within office hours Monday to Friday. Copies of the documents may also be inspected at the following local authority office, Pennard Community Hall, Pennard Road, Pennard, SA3 2AD

If the registration authority is satisfied that the land described below qualifies for registration as a town or village green, it will so register the land.

Any person wishing to object to the registration of the land as a town or village green should send a statement of the facts on which the objections is based to City & County of Swansea, Civic Centre, Oystermouth Road, Swansea, SA1 3SN on or before 16th December 2024

Any statements that are to be taken into account by the Authority in reaching a decision on the application cannot be treated as confidential and will be copied to the applicant for comment and may be disclosed to other interested parties.

Dated: 29th October 2024

Signed: PJJ Holmes Head of Planning & City Regeneration
 
Schedule
Description of the land claimed to have qualified for registration as a town or village green

The land in question is registered common land and forms part of CL:013 Pennard Cliffs and lays on the Northeast of Pennard Golf Club. The land abuts Pennard Road and consists of approximately two acres.