MOD begins Warcop consultation

3 May 2012 09:27 AM

The MOD has launched a public consultation on its proposals to revise two undertakings given in respect of land at Warcop Training Area in Cumbria.

The original undertakings were given at a public inquiry held in 2001, and were intended to safeguard the future status of the land in the event of it ever being given up by the Department.

The public inquiry resulted in the rights of common at Warcop, Hilton and Murton commons being extinguished, but the MOD undertook to create new rights of common in the event of the cessation of military training. It also agreed not to remove the land from the register of common land created under the Commons Registration Act 1965.

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