Landowner statements, highways statements and highways declarations

Landowner statements allow landowners to stop their land being registered as a town or village green, providing a statement is deposited before there has been 20 years recreational use of the land 'as of right'. The statement includes a written statement and a map.

Part of the criteria for registering new town or village greens is that the land has been used 'as of right' for at least 20 years. A landowner statement stops any recreational use 'as of right' over the land shown on the map and described in the statement.

For land which has been subject to recreational use 'as of right' for 20 years or more before a landowner statement is deposited, the deposit of a statement would cause a 1 year period of grace for greens applications, where use of the land 'as of right' has stopped.