The Commons Registration (England) Regulations 2008

Land descriptions

19.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to any requirement to describe land for the purposes of an application or proposal, except where another provision of these Regulations specifies the manner in which land is to be described in a particular case.

(2) The land must be described, except where paragraph (3) applies, by an Ordnance Map accompanying the application or proposal and referred to in it.

(3) Where the land is registered land, and the application relates to the whole of the land in a register unit, the land must be described by a reference to the number of that register unit.

(4) Where part of the land is registered land, that part of the land must be described by a reference to the number of any register unit which includes that part.

(5) Any Ordnance Map accompanying an application or proposal must show the land to be described by means of distinctive colouring within an accurately identified boundary and must be—

(a) on a scale of not less than 1:10,560 (six inches to one mile), where the land to be described—

(i) consists wholly or predominantly of moorland;

(ii) is a neighbourhood or locality, which is being described for the purposes of an application under section 15 of the 2006 Act; or

(iii) is the land to which a right of common is attached; and

(b) on a scale of not less than 1:2,500 in all other cases.