Acquisition of Land Act 1981: section 19 certificate applications

Publication Year

2025

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Explains the process for appropriation or compulsory purchase of common land or town/village greens.

Document History

Last updated: 1 December 2025 - Revised to reflect the new PINS postal address. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/appropriation-or-compulsory-purchase-of-certain-types-of-land-including-common-land-or-town-or-village-green/acquisition-of-land-act-1981-section-19-certificate-applications and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 2 April 2019.

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