[Talk-GB] Quarterly Project 2021Q

[Edward Bainton]

Commons, like other land rights, can be registered or unregistered.

It would seem very important to capture the difference, because the
Government is progressively closing down all non-registered public land
rights. Eg, 31 Dec 2020 was the deadline to register commons in certain
areas: those not registered in those areas can now never be commons again.

The next deadline is 2027 for Cumbria and other areas. See:
https://www.oss.org.uk/our-last-minute-bid-to-rescue-lost-commons/

On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 18:04, Russ Garrett <russ at garrett.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 11 Feb 2021 at 17:15, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
> <robert.whittaker+osm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > While I'm here: do people have a preference between
> > designation=registered_common_land and designation=common ? The latter
> > is what's currently in use (about 140 times in the UK) but the former
> > is the full term used in CRoW Act 2000. I'd prefer the former:
> > although it's a longer tag value, I think it's more obvious that it
> > corresponds to a formal legal designation, and so is less likely to
> > get mis-applied.
>
> Surely the entire point of the designation= tag is to record legal
> designations, though. There are also commons which exist outside the
> registration system, as covered on the wiki page. I think the term
> "registered common land" is used for a specific legal reason in the
> CRoW Act, not because it is the generally accepted term of art (gov.uk
> just says "common land").
>
> Disclosure: I did create the designation=common tag but tagging
> discussions bore me to tears so I honestly don't really care.
>
> --
> Russ Garrett
> russ at garrett.co.uk
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