The Commons Registration (England) Regulations 2014

Representations

25.—(1) Any person may, by the date specified in a notice of an application or proposal, make written representations to the registration authority about the application or proposal.

(2) Representations under paragraph (1)—

(a) must state the name and postal address of the person making them, and the nature of that person’s interest (if any) in any land affected by the application or proposal;

(b) may include an e-mail address of the person making them;

(c) must be signed by the person making them; and

(d) must state the grounds on which they are made.

(3) As soon as reasonably practicable after the expiry of the period allowed for making representations in respect of an application, the registration authority must—

(a) notify the applicant that no representations have been made; or

(b) serve on the applicant a copy of all the representations it has received.

(4) The applicant may reply in writing to the registration authority within 21 days of being served with a copy of representations (or within such longer period as the registration authority may specify at the time when it serves the copy of representations), setting out the applicant’s response to the representations.

(5) A reply under paragraph (4) must be signed by the person making it.

(6) Where the applicant makes a reply under paragraph (4), the registration authority must send a copy of it to every person who made a representation under paragraph (1).