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Tuesday Law Report: `User as of right' of village green 29 June 1999 Regina v Oxfordshire County Council and others, ex parte Sunningwell Parish Council House of Lords (Lord Browne- Wilkinson, Lord Steyn, Lord Hoffmann, Lord Hobhouse of Woodborough and Lord Millett) 24 June 1999
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June 29, 1999
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IN ORDER to establish "user as of right" within the terms of
section 22(1) of the Commons Registration Act 1965 for the purposes
of registration of a town or village green under section 13 of the
Act, it was not necessary that the right should have been exercised
in the belief that it was enjoyed by the local inhabitants to the
exclusion of all other people.
The House of Lords allowed the appeal of Sunningwell Parish
Council against the refusal of its application for judicial review of
a decision of Oxfordshire County Council, refusing to register
certain land as a village green.
The glebe at Sunningwell in Oxfordshire was an open space of about
10 acres owned by the Oxford Diocesan Board of ...