Common Land Toolkit
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Registration of Common Land
Factsheet setting out important legislation related to Common Land registration
Arrangements for financial management
Proper financial management for payments received is essential to ensure funds are safely received, correctly distributed, accounts can be examined and reported on.
Internal Agreements and Heads of Terms
Read more here about establishing an internal agreement - with a draft template to instruct your solicitor using a ‘heads of terms’ document
Creating a live register for your Common
How do you create a live register of rights on your Common? Read on for some guidance
Associations and other options for organising your Common
There are a range of structures your common can adopt to govern management and delivery of a stewardship or environmental land management agreement for delivering public goods.
Understanding public goods
Identifying and mapping your public goods will be a key part of preparing for ELM, find more help here
Getting ready for ELM
As you start to look ahead and plan for ELM there’s some groundwork you can be getting done to prepare for an ELM application
Creating a Common Management Plan
Having a Management Plan for your Common is likely to be a key part of Nature recovery and Landscape recovery components of ELM.