Application to register land at Quantock Drive at Ashford as a new Village Green

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We have received an application to register land at Quantock Drive at Ashford as a new Village Green.

Under the Commons Act 2006, anyone may apply to the County Council for land to be registered as a Town or Village Green, but in order for land to qualify for registration it must be shown that ‘a significant number of the inhabitants of any locality, or of any neighbourhood within a locality, have indulged as of right in lawful sports and pastimes on the land for a period of at least 20 years’. For use of the land to have been ‘as of right’, it must have taken place without any force, secrecy or permission.

UPDATE 20.09.2023: This application has been accepted, and the land to which it relates registered as Village Green (reference number VG296). The reasons for this can be found in the Committee report available at: https://democracy.kent.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=182&MId=9383&Ver=4

We have received an application to register land at Quantock Drive at Ashford as a new Village Green.

Under the Commons Act 2006, anyone may apply to the County Council for land to be registered as a Town or Village Green, but in order for land to qualify for registration it must be shown that ‘a significant number of the inhabitants of any locality, or of any neighbourhood within a locality, have indulged as of right in lawful sports and pastimes on the land for a period of at least 20 years’. For use of the land to have been ‘as of right’, it must have taken place without any force, secrecy or permission.

UPDATE 20.09.2023: This application has been accepted, and the land to which it relates registered as Village Green (reference number VG296). The reasons for this can be found in the Committee report available at: https://democracy.kent.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=182&MId=9383&Ver=4