Resources

Our response to the Built Environment Committee inquiry into the Grey Belt.

This advice note is about parish and town council ownership and protection of common land and village greens

This advice note deals with the law of closed churchyards and disused burial grounds.

This advice note considers rights of way over common land, village green, and relevant law.

This advice note concerns parish and town councils helping village halls.

This advice note explains the circumstances in which a parish and town council or, in Wales, a community council may compulsorily purchase land.

This advice note concerns negligence, which can be defined as failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances.

This advice note covers the responsibilities of parish and town councils as occupiers under the Occupiers’ Liability Acts 1957 and 1984.

This advice note explains the rules and procedures for disposing of non-charity land by parish or town councils.

This advice note explains the rules and procedures for disposing of charitable land by a parish or town council.

This advice note sets out the law on the occupation of land, known as adverse possession or squatter’s rights.

This advice note concentrates on the provisions of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 that are relevant to parish and town councils

This advice note concerns the responsibilities of councils as landowners.

This advice note concerns the provision of play and sports equipment on village greens

This advice note concerns private nuisance in England and Wales.

This advice note deals with statutory and public nuisance.

This advice note concerns the official record of who owns land in the UK

This advice note concerns the legal responsibility of tombstones and memorials.

This advice notes concerns unauthorised parking on private land.