The Commons (Registration of Town or Village Greens) (Interim Arrangements) (Wales) Regulations 2007

Consideration of objections

6.—(1) Where an application is made under section 15(1) of the 2006 Act to register land as a town or village green, the registration authority must, as soon as possible after the date by which statements in objection to an application have been required to be submitted, proceed to the further consideration of the application, and the consideration of statements (if any) in objection to that application, in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2) The registration authority—

(a) must consider every written statement in objection to an application it receives before the date on which it proceeds to the further consideration of the application under paragraph (1); and

(b) may consider any such statement it receives on or after that date and before it finally disposes of the application.

(3) The registration authority must send the applicant a copy of every statement which it is required under paragraph (2) to consider and of every statement which it is permitted to consider and intends to consider.

(4) The registration authority must not reject the application without giving the applicant a reasonable opportunity of dealing with—

(a) the matters contained in any statement of which copies are sent to the applicant under paragraph (3); and

(b) any other matter in relation to the application which appears to the authority to afford possible grounds for rejecting the application.