Environment Food and Rural Affairs written question – answered at on 16 November 2010.
Alan Keen
Labour, Feltham and Heston
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs how many applications for the registration of town and village greens were rejected by commons registration authorities in each of the last 10 years.
Richard Benyon
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
The figures in the following table are estimates derived from surveys of commons registration authorities in England, and scaled up accordingly. The data include applications rejected under both section 15(1) of the Commons Act 2006, and section 13(b) of the Commons Registration Act 1965. There are no national data available for 2000-02.
| Number of applications rejected | |
| 2009(1) | 79 |
| 2008 | 52 |
| 2007 | 35 |
| 2006 | 16 |
| 2005 | 22 |
| 2004 | 29 |
| 2003 | 30 |
| (1) To end of September. | |
Yes6 people think so
No5 people think not
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