Buckinghamshire - Application for Registration of Land and Definitive Map Modification Order

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COUNCIL

COMMONS ACT 2006 SECTION 15(1)

NOTICE OF AN APPLICATION FOR THE REGISTRATION OF LAND AS 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 Registration Authority, Buckinghamshire Council, Walton Street Offices, Walton Street, Aylesbury, by Philip Pope, Brambles, Tifnams, Owlswick Lane, Princes Risborough, HP27 9JY under section 15(1) of the Commons Act 2006 and in accordance with the Commons (Registration of Town or Village Green) (Interim Arrangements) (England) Regulations 2007 for the land approximately one third of an acre adjoining to the south and southwest of Lamb Cottage in Owlswick (“Owlswick Village Green”). The application seeks the inclusion in the Register of Town or 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 7 November 2023 by virtue of the Land being used by the inhabitants of the locality or neighbourhood within a locality for lawful sports and pastimes for at least 20 years, such use continuing at the time of the application. The application, which includes a plan of the land proposed for registration may be inspected at the following local authority offices, Buckinghamshire Council, Walton Street Offices, Walton Street, Aylesbury, HP20 1UA, and copies of the application and plan may be inspected online at https://www.buckscc.gov.uk/services/environment/public-rights-of-way/common-land-and-town-or-village-greens/recent-village-green-applications/. Copies of the documents may also be arranged to be inspected at the Longwick-cum-Ilmer parish by writing to the following email address, clerk@longwickcumilmer.org.uk. If the Registration Authority is satisfied that the land described below qualifies for registration as 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 objection is based to the Head of Highways, Buckinghamshire Council, Walton Street Offices, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP20 1UA or row@buckinghamshire.gov.uk so as to arrive not later than 27.06.2025. Please mark correspondence for the attention of Mrs H. Francis, Definitive Map and Highway Searches Team Leader.

NOTICE OF MODIFICATION ORDER, SECTION 53 OF THE WILDLIFE AND COUNTRYSIDE ACT 1981, THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COUNCIL DEFINITIVE MAP AND STATEMENT, THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE COUNCIL (PUBLIC FOOTPATHS AT TERRIERS FARM, PARISH OF HAZLEMERE) DEFINITIVE MAP MODIFICATION ORDER 2025

Made on 1 May 2025, if confirmed as made, will modify the definitive map and statement for the area by: adding public rights of way from SU88385-95447 SW for 15m to SU88375-95436 WSW for 172m to SU88207-94502 WNW for 64m to SU88145-95409 SSE for 333m to SU88284-95147 and also from SU88211-95111 ENE for 227m to SU88422-95185 NNW for 254m to SU88375-94536 and also from SU88203-95425 S for 205m to SU88232-95224 SSW for 116m to SU88211-95111 and also from SU88225-95320 SSE for 198m to SU88306-95140 and also from SU88203-95245 S for 223m to SU88322-95240 and also from SU88287-95331 ESE for 125m to SU88409-95310 and also from SU88202-95238 ENE for 205m to SU88403-95277 SE for 18m to SU88417-95265 SW for 13m to SU88407-95256 WSW for 206m to SU88206-95219 and also from SU88176-95323 SE for 7m to SU88181-95318 WSW for 6m to SU88179-95313 ENE for 214m to SU88390-95348 NE for 14m to SU88401-95358 NW for 15m to SU88387-95364 WSW for 214m to SU88176-95323 with a width of 2m throughout.

Full details of the Order can be seen free of charge at Reception, Buckinghamshire Council, Walton Street Offices, Walton Street, Aylesbury, HP20 1UA and at Hazlemere Library during normal opening hours. Copies of the Order and map may be purchased from the Council at a cost of £5.00 by writing to the Definitive Map Team at the address given below. Any representation or objection relating to the Order must be sent in writing to the Definitive Map Team, Buckinghamshire Council, Walton Street Offices, Walton Street, Aylesbury, HP20 1UA or email row@buckinghamshire.gov.uk not later than 30 June 2025, and applicants are requested to state the grounds on which it is made. If no representations or objections are duly made to the Order, or to any part of it, or if any so made are withdrawn, Buckinghamshire Council instead of submitting the Order to the Secretary of State, may itself confirm the Order as an unopposed Order. If the Order is submitted to the Secretary of State for Environment Food and Rural Affairs for confirmation, any representations or objections which have been duly made and not withdrawn will be sent with it.

Under the Local Government (Access to Information) Act 1985 Buckinghamshire Council is obliged to make any representations received in response to this notice, open to public inspection.