Notice of application for registration of Common Land at Windmill Common

Surrey County Council
Commons Registration Act 1965
Notice of application for registration of land claimed to have become Common land after 2nd January 1970

To every reputed owner, lessee, tenant or occupier of any part of the land described below, and to all others whom it may concern.

Application has been made to the registration authority, the Surrey County Council, Woodhatch Place, 11 Cockshot Hill, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 8EF under section 13 of the Commons Registration Act 1965 by Nancy El-Shatoury, Surrey County Council Legal Services, 1^st Floor, Dakota, De Havilland Drive, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0YP under section 13 of the Commons Registration Act 1965 for the inclusion in the Register of Common Land of the land described at Annex A below, which it is claimed became common land on 21 December 2009 in substitution for the land described at Annex B below, which, it is claimed, ceased to be common land on that date, under and by virtue of a Compulsory Purchase Order dated 21 December 2009, pursuant to powers contained in the Highways Act 1980, the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and the Acquisition of Land Act 1981.

The application, which includes a plan of both areas, may be inspected at the offices of the Countryside Access Team, Whitebeam Lodge, Merrow Depot, Merrow Lane, Guildford, Surrey, GU4 7BQ and copies of the application and plans may be inspected at the following local authority offices: -

Spelthorne Borough Council, Knowle Green, Staines-upon-Thames, TW18 1XB

If the registration authority is satisfied that the land described at Annex A below has become common land as claimed, it will so register the land, and such registration will be conclusive evidence of the status of the land as at the date of registration. The land described at Annex B below will then be removed from the register.

Any person wishing to object to the registration of the land as common land or to the removal from the register of the land described at Annex B below should send a written and signed statement of the facts on which he bases his objection to Surrey County Council, Countryside Access Team, Whitebeam Lodge, Merrow Depot, Merrow Lane, Guildford, Surrey, GU4 7BQ so as to arrive not later than 18 November 2024.

Dated 4 October 2024

Signed: Asmat Hussain, Director - Law and Governance

(on behalf of the registration authority)

Annex A

Description of the land claimed to have become common land

Pastureland southwest of dwelling house known as Walton Bridge House, Walton Bridge Road, Shepperton, forming part of Walton Lane Farm

(plots 59, 60*, 61 and 62 coloured mauve on the plan)

*plot 60 has been substituted in exchange for rights of entry onto common land plots 50 and 55 (shown coloured blue on the plan) during construction works and maintenance of drainage works post-construction

Annex B

Description of the land claimed to have ceased to be common land

Part of Windmill Common (CL44) and Land to the south of Walton Lane (CL371)

(plots 42 and 44 and plots 40, 45 to 49, 52 and 54 coloured pink on the plan)

Files available to download

• Map to show Common Land affected at Windmill Common, Walton (PDF)
  Map to show the effect of deregistration and exchange of Common Land at Windmill Common, Walton under section 13 Commons Registration Act 1965.