Agenda item

To consider a recommendation to refuse this application and not register the land as a TVG

The Chair invited Graeme Stark (Senior Officer – Public Rights of Way) to introduce the item.

The officer informed the Committee that an Application has been received by Bath and North East Somerset Council in its capacity as Commons Registration Authority to register land known as Robin Candy’s Field in High Littleton as a Town or Village Green (TVG). The Application was advertised and an objection was received against registration. He further explained that an independent expert was instructed by the Authority to advise as to whether or not Robin Candy’s Fields should be registered as TVG. The inspector recommended that the land not be registered as a TVG as the relevant legal test had not been met. Although Greyfield was deemed to constitute a neighbourhood within a locality, the officer advised that it had not been demonstrated that the Application Land had been used by a significant number of inhabitants over a 20 year period for lawful sports and pastimes.

On a motion from Councillor Liz Richardson, seconded by Councillor Karen Warrington, it was unanimously RESOLVED to support the officer’s recommendation to refuse the application and not register the land cross hatched in blue on the plan attached at Appendix 1 to the report as a TVG.