The Commons (Registration of Town or Village Greens) and Dedicated Highways (Landowner Statements and Declarations) (England) Regulations 2013
Section 31(6) of the Highways Act 1980 (“the 1980 Act”) prescribes a mechanism by which a landowner may provide (by way of depositing statements and maps followed by subsequent declarations with the appropriate council) sufficient evidence to negative an intention to dedicate ways over the landowner’s land as a highway for the purpose of defeating deemed dedication of such ways as highways. Section 15A of the Commons Act 2006 (“the 2006 Act”) prescribes a mechanism by which a landowner may deposit a statement accompanied with a map with a commons registration authority in order to protect the landowner’s land from registration as a town or village green.