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Commons Bill [Lords]
11:30 am
Jim Knight (Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity), Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; South Dorset, Labour)
The amendments respond to a concern raised byConservative Front-Bench Members on Third Reading in another place thatland on which houses had recently been built might meet the criteriafor registration as a green under the clause. That situation mightarise if land had already been used as of right by local inhabitantsfor lawful sports and pastimes for at least 20 years before thedevelopment took place. It would be an unusual circumstance, but itwould be unacceptable if the clause were to allow the registration ofland where houses stand today. The amendments will prevent that fromhappening. If land was covered by a building or its curtilage on 18April 2006, the date the amendments were tabled, it will not beregistrable.