Commons & town green newspaper notices
Keep the application, land details, authority wording, objections and publicity evidence under one matter. The responsible authority and statutory route are confirmed before any newspaper artwork or booking.
Guided specialist route
Start a guided commons publicity draft
Enter the facts or upload your existing notice. The draft appears in Applications and its source stays in Documents while Gazetted confirms the statutory route before artwork, quote, publication booking or payment.
- Tailored checklist and next task
- Source documents kept with the matter
- Route review before publication-ready artwork
Starting a draft does not place a notice or take payment.
The commons and town-green workflow
Keep the land application and authority publicity steps together.
Capture the registration, deregistration or town-green route as a draft, then pause for an assisted check of the registration authority's current publicity duties.
How this service works
What Gazetted helps you do from source document to organised record
Build or upload
Enter or extract the authority, application route, land, locality, inspection and representation details.
Check the notice route
Gazetted flags missing route-specific fields and keeps the 42-day representation details visible without treating them as applicant newspaper artwork.
Save for an assisted check
Automatic newspaper checkout is blocked. Save the draft while the registration authority's website, email or service, and any required site notice route is checked.
Track authority publicity
Use the checked route to organise authority publicity, inspection, representations and decision evidence; the draft remains available without creating an application or payment.
Gazetted prompts for the details this workflow needs and flags missing required fields. You remain responsible for the application, the selected publication route and any legal or professional review.
Exact portal example — live tasks adapt to the subtype and route.
The legal requirement
The Commons Act 2006 provides the framework for registering and protecting common land and town or village greens in England. After accepting an application, the commons registration authority follows the applicable publicity procedure under the Commons Registration (England) Regulations 2014. That can include website publication, prescribed service and notices on the land; it does not create a universal applicant duty to buy a local-newspaper advert.
This requirement ensures that local residents and other interested parties have the opportunity to make representations or objections before the registration authority makes its decision. The authority sets the applicable notice, service and response timetable for the application route.
Note: Wales has a separate commons registration regime. The SI 2014/3038 notification procedure applies to England only.
Key points
- Covers registration, deregistration, and town greens
- Town green requires evidence of 20 years' use by local inhabitants
- Deregistration requires replacement land to be offered
- Publication certificate provides evidence of compliance
What you receive
Everything you need to demonstrate compliance, delivered to your portal.
Proof PDF
A typeset proof of your notice for approval before publication.
Publication certificate
Confirming publication date, newspaper name, and notice content.
VAT invoice
Available in your portal immediately after payment.
Guided route
Start the record without payment. Any newspaper, artwork and price follow confirmation of the authority-led publicity route.
No booking or payment during draft review
Frequently asked questions
Ready to organise the commons publicity record?
Start from the authority wording or upload the source document. The route is checked before publication.
Guided specialist route
Start a guided commons publicity draft
Enter the facts or upload your existing notice. The draft appears in Applications and its source stays in Documents while Gazetted confirms the statutory route before artwork, quote, publication booking or payment.
- Tailored checklist and next task
- Source documents kept with the matter
- Route review before publication-ready artwork
Starting a draft does not place a notice or take payment.