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Essex · commons registration authority: Essex

Common land in Essex: check a postcode

Registered common land in Essex is protected by the Commons Act 2006: fencing, buildings, driveways and hard surfaces on it need Secretary of State consent, and commoners' rights survive a sale. Enter a postcode to see registered commons, CRoW open-access land and public rights of way within 250 m.

Registered common land units
525
Mapped area
977 ha
Data
Live · Natural England

Largest registered commons in Essex: Nazeing Wood or Nazeing Park · Danbury Common · Curtismill Green and Wattons Green · Woodham Walter Common · Lattson Common · Gernon Bushes · Harlow Common · Woodside Green.

Source: Natural England CRoW Act 2000 s.4 conclusive Registered Common Land layer, AUTHORITY = “Essex”. Town and village greens are registered separately and are not open data.

Free: touches common land? · right of way within 50 m? — Try WD3 1QB (Batchworth Heath), TN7 4EX (Ashdown Forest), OX2 6TN (Port Meadow)

What the £9.99 report adds for Essex

  • Every registered common within 250 m with its CL register number, so your solicitor can pull the register entry from Essex in one request.
  • Whether the point sits inside CRoW open-access land, and which kind (open country, common or dedicated land).
  • Footpaths, bridleways and byways within 250 m with the council reference, and the Highways Act 1980 rules that stop them being blocked or built over.
  • A dated PDF with the legal basis of each finding and full data provenance.

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