Guidance

Common land notices and decisions published in 2023, 2024 and 2025

Hearing and inquiry notices and decisions for common land applications in 2023, 2024 and 2025

Applies to England

The Planning Inspectorate is responsible for determining applications under the 2006 Act regarding common land in England, and several other pieces of legislation regarding commons and greens. All applications are determined on behalf of the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

All Hearing and inquiry notices and decisions for common land applications within 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 are published on a separate page.

Decisions prior to 2019

Hearings and Inquiries

  • COM/3343068 St Gennys, Cornwall. Hearing Notice 30 July 2025
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    2022

    Updates to this page

    Published 19 January 2023
    Last updated 2915 September 2025 + show all updates
    1. COM/3343039 decision added

    2. Common land decision added for Smith’s Green, Takeley, Essex.

    3. Decision notice for Upton Towans Application added.

    4. COM/3354831 and COM/3346161 decision

    5. COM/3337713 CL493 Trewellard Common Decision

    6. COM/3316968 decision. COM/3324516 and COM/3330974 hearing notices.

    7. COM/3299781 decision

    8. Decision added: COM 3336782 Greta Wood

    9. COM/3353753 decision

    10. COM/3363510 decision

    11. Common land decision added 27 June 2025

    12. 4 common land hearing notices added

    13. COM/3345059 and COM/3345054 and COM/3355703 decisions

    14. COM/3352947 decision

    15. COM/3346435 decision

    16. COM/3358919 decision

    17. COM/3353450 hearing start date amended.

    18. COM/3361343 decision

    19. COM/3336312 and COM/3349983 decisions

    20. COM/3356274 & COM/3356279

    21. COM/3343068 St Gennys, Cornwall. Hearing Notice

    22. GRETA WOOD (CL238) hearing notice

    23. COM/3358698 Decision

    24. COM/3349067 decision

    25. COM/3325726 added

    26. COM/3350325 decision

    27. COM/3337337 decision

    28. COM/3329771 Towan Beach Decision

    29. 3 new common land hearings added

    30. COM/3343054 decision

    31. common land decision posted.

    32. OM/3356581 Aldringham Green, Suffolk Decision date: 25 February 2025

    33. COM/3325277 decision

    34. COM/3344390 Powick Hams Common, Powick, Worcestershire Decision date: 27 January 2025 and COM 3349061 Yew Hill Reservoir, Silkstead Lane, Compton and Shawford, SO21 2LG Decision date: 29 January 2025

    35. COM/3334560 and COM 3350284 decision

    36. COM/3355067 decision

    37. decision for COM 3346085 Elstree Common 20 December 2024 added.

    38. Two new hearing notices added under 2024.

    39. Haigh common decision released

    40. COM/3347174 Monken Hadley Common and COM/3327735R Lyneham Green Decisions

    41. COM/3311141 Upton Towans, Cornwall Hearing Notice 21 January 2025, COM/3325277 Curglaze Common, Cornwall Hearing Notice 23 January 2025 and COM/3329763 Hendra Croft, Cornwall Hearing Notice 20 February 2025 added

    42. COM/3347186 decision

    43. New common land decision attached.

    44. 3 common land decisions added.

    45. two common land decisions added.

    46. new common land decision for 10/10/2024 uploaded.

    47. common land decision for Goose Green Common added.

    48. Decision added: COM/3348118 Cranleigh Common, Surrey

    49. COM/3345519, COM/3342529 and COM/3344535

    50. COM/3347300 decision

    51. COM/3327731 added

    52. COM/3324088 Chynhalls Cliff, St Keverne, Cornwall Decision date: 21 August 2024 and COM/3324607 Peter Tavy Great Common Hearing notice 30 October 2024

    53. New decision added: COM/3321045 West Looe Downs Decision date: 15 August 2024

    54. COM/3336779 Burngullow Common Decision date: 12 August 2024 and COM/3330832 Rejerrah Downs Decision date: 12 August 2024

    55. COM/3333979 and COM/3333989, COM/3337492 and COM/3343913 decisions

    56. COM/3325277, COM/3311141 and COM/3337990 - Hearing adjourned COM/3329771 - Hearing postponed

    57. common land decision 19 July added.

    58. COM/3329122 and COM/3334363 decisions

    59. COM/3323299, COM/3334573 and COM/3334565 decisions

    60. COM/3334826 decision

    61. COM/3337705, COM/3329771 and COM/3325297 hearing notices

    62. COM/333457 decision

    63. COM/3303800 decision

    64. COM/3324088 Hearing notice Chynhalls Cliff - file attachment and COM/3337990 Pollurian Cove - file attachment added.

    65. Hearing Notice Rejerra Downs 15-04-24 - file attachment Hearing Notice Curglaze Common 10-05-24 - file attachment Hearing Notice Upton Towans 10-05-24.docx - file attachment Hearing Notice West Looe Downs 15-04-24.docx - file attachment added.

    66. COM/3326946 and COM/3326284 decisions

    67. COM/3329754 decision

    68. COM/3329112 Knowl Moor - Hearing 25 June 2024

    69. decision for Hackney downs added.

    70. New decision published: COM/3332614 Cockernhoe Village Green decision 7 May 2024

    71. New decision published: COM/3323550 Edge Common Application decision 7 May 2024

    72. COM/3323643 and COM/3327738 decisions

    73. COM/3332044 and COM/3327735 decisions

    74. COM/3329745 decision

    75. COM/3330933 decision

    76. COM/3325462 decision

    77. COM/3330405 decision

    78. COM/3327737 and COM/3325376 decisions

    79. COM/3333418, COM/3327997 and COM/3325292 decisions

    80. COM/3325380 and COM 3323196 & COM 3323197 decisions

    81. COM/3319474 decision

    82. two common land decisions posted for 22 February 2024.

    83. COM/3314044 decision

    84. COM/3319558 and COM/3323563 decisions

    85. COM/3324356 and COM/3326940 decisions

    86. decision added and title / description changed

    87. document attachment (decision) 80 added. 2023 changed to 2024 on attachment 79.

    88. COM/3312481 Decision date: 16th January 2023

    89. Inline Attachment 77 (descion) added 11 January 2024

    90. decision added, COM 3307244 Sneedhams Green 18-12-2023.

    91. COM 3302826 Bromyard Decision 15 December 2023 - file attachment COM 3319187 Farway Common 15 December 2023 - file attachment added to document on 15 December 2023

    92. New common Land decision document added

    93. COM 3294347 added

    94. COM/3317939 decision

    95. COM/3206697R decision

    96. COM/3317951 decision

    97. COM/3316968: PART OF DITSWORTHY WARREN. Hearing postponed - new date to be confirmed

    98. COM 3317297 decision

    99. COM/3312935 decision

    100. COM/3319187 hearing notice added

    101. 2 new decisions published

    102. Hearing notification added for COM/3316968: PART OF DITSWORTHY WARREN

    103. COM/3317299 , COM/3313966, COM/3291403 and COM/3313181 decisions added

    104. COM/3321502 Peckham Rye Decision date: 31 August 2023

    105. COM/3319837 decision

    106. COM 3288615 Polyphant Green, Polyphant, Cornwall PL15 7PS Decision date: 13 July 2023 decision

    107. COM/3300566 and COM/3300564 decisions

    108. COM/3311552, COM/3311541 , COM/3311432, COM/3311223 decisions added

    109. COM/3314044: Breakneck, Peter’s Splash & Raven’s Hole Beaches, Cornwall. Hearing date 3 August 2023, COM/3309826: Talland Cliff, Cornwall. Hearing date 8 August 2023, COM/3313966: St Breward Common, Cornwall. Hearing date 10 August 2023

    110. COM/3319193 COM/3312124 and COM/3307440 COM/3311223 and COM/3316215 decisions

    111. COM/3287816, COM/3293879 and COM/3306665 decisions

    112. COM/3311859, COM/3314774 , COM/3314783, COM/3315579 and COM/3316962 decisions

    113. COM/3307244 hearing notice added and COM/3298979 AND COM/3299537 hearing notice updated

    114. COM/3290856 Kingsmead, Ware, Hertfordshire Decision date: 10 May 2023

    115. COM/3291403 – Martha’s Hill & Beck Bottom (CL190) – The hearing will begin at 10am on Tuesday 4 July and COM/3309398 Burn Moor (Clapham Portion), North Yorkshire Decision date: 3 May 2023

    116. COM/3298979 AND COM/3299537 North Common and Chailey Common – Hearing 6 June 2023 updated

    117. COM/3313181 Bury Wood – Hearing 1 August 2023, COM/3312935 – Clapham Common (CL73) – The virtual public inquiry will begin at 10am on Tuesday 13 June and COM/3303863 decision

    118. COM/3301435, COM/3303956, COM/3304359 and COM/3305817 decisions

    119. COM/3309337 Lyneham Green – 11 April 2023 decision

    120. COM/3307623 decision added

    121. COM/3296303, COM/3313278, COM/3313485 and COM/331674 Decisions

    122. Broxhead Common (CL147), Hampshire Land at Picketts Hill, Headley and Broxhead Common (CL147), Hampshire Land at Baigents Hill, Headley hearing ntoices

    123. COM/3309426 decision added and COM/3298979 AND COM/3299537 hearing notice updated

    124. COM 3306325 Rye & Hillside Common decision 01 March 2023 and COM/3298979 AND COM/3299537 North Common and Chailey Common – Hearing 6 June 2023

    125. COM/3311427, COM/3311421 and COM/3295102 decisions

    126. COM/3287816 - Land at Lizard Green (CL220) - The hearing will begin at 10am on Wednesday 17 May 2023

    127. COM/3305817 and COM/3303956 hearing notice

    128. COM/3304252 and COM/3304873 Decision and COM/3277613 hearing notice

    129. COM/3296835 decision added

    130. COM/3299566 and COM/3295093 decisions added

    131. First published.

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