The Commons (Registration of Town or Village Greens) and Dedicated Highways (Landowner Statements and Declarations) (England) Regulations 2013

Management and publishing of application

4.—(1) As soon as practicable after receiving an application made in accordance with regulation 2, the appropriate authority must—

(a) send an acknowledgement of receipt to the applicant; and

(b) publicise notice of receipt of the application in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).

(2) An appropriate authority must—

(a) publish notice of the application on the authority’s website;

(b) serve notice of the application by email on any person who has previously asked to be informed of all applications and who has given the authority an email address for that purpose; and

(c) so as to bring it to the attention of users of the land, post notice of the application for not less than 60 days at or near at least one obvious place of entry to (or, if there are no such places, at or near at least one conspicuous place on the boundary of) the land to which the application relates.

(3) The notices required under paragraph (2)(a), (b) and (c) must be in the form set out in Schedule 2, or in a form substantially to the same effect, with such insertions or omissions as are necessary in any particular case.

(4) Where a notice posted under paragraph (2)(c) is, without any fault or intention of the appropriate authority, removed, obscured or defaced before the period of 60 days referred to in that paragraph has elapsed, the authority shall be treated as having complied with the requirements of that paragraph.