§ Mr. Lubbockasked the Minister of Housing and Local Government if he will circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT a list of the sites and number of pitches provided by local authorities in England for the use of gypsies, as notified to him in response to his circular 4a/68.
§ Mr. GreenwoodFollowing is a list of the 23 sites comprising 337 pitches provided by local authorities in England for the use of gypsies.
1968, with the county councils and county boroughs in England and Wales concerning common land, town and village greens, and rights in common, respectively; what is the approximate acreage of such registrations up to 30th June; and if he will make a statement.
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§ Mr. SkeffingtonBy 1st July, 1968, 5,775 separate areas had been provisionally registered as common land and 2,530 areas as town or village greens. In addition 17,927 individual claims to rights of common had been registered.
Well over two-thirds of the commons and greens have now been registered. In terms of acreage the proportion will almost certainly be much higher as it is mainly the smaller, lesser known, areas which remain to be dealt with. At the present provisional stage, however, acreages cannot be quoted; registration authorities will not be required to show them in the registers until registrations become final.
Form 5 is a notice of intention to apply for registration before the second period for applications ends on 2nd January, 1970. Registration authorities have received large numbers of such notices.