Commons Governance
With multiple people having legal rights on commons Governance is at the heart of successful management. Here you can find support on setting up and running an Association, creating a live register of common rights and managing breaches of rules.
Associations
Setting Up Your Commons Association for an ELM Agreement
There are a number of structures to put in place when engaging in an ELM / SFI / CS Scheme. Click below for more information about this.
Associations and Other Options for Organising your Common
There are a range of structures your common can adopt to govern management and delivery of a stewardship or environmental land management agreement for delivering public goods. Click below for more information.
Commons Registers
Commons Registers
For information about Commons Registers, click below.
Creating a Live Register
To find out how to create a live register for your common, click below.
Updating the Commons Register
Sometimes amendments need to be made to the Commons Register, due to events or errors in the information. To learn about how to make these amendments, click below.
Administration
Ongoing Administration for Commons Agreements
Administration is essential to ensure implementation of environmental schemes and avoid schemes. For more information, click below.
Arrangements for Financial Management
Proper financial management for payments received is essential to ensure funds are safely received, correctly distributed, and accounts can be examined and reported. For more information about this, click below
Internal Agreements and Heads of Terms
For more information about establishing an internal agreement, and to access a draft template for instructing your solicitor using a ‘heads of terms’ document, click below.
Governance and Management of Commons
The management of commons is invariably complex due to the large number of people holding rights of common and having a legal interest in the common, the need for cooperation between these individuals and the fact that the common will often be an important public resource with a wide range of stakeholders. For more information, click below.
Choosing a management model
Common land is subject to a great diversity of management models, some statutory with the ability to enforce adopted regulations, others voluntary with no ability to bind dissenting minorities. Many commons have no formal management model and have not felt the need to adopt one. For more information as to how to decide upon which model to pick, click below.
Why is governance so important?
It is crucial to have a good system of governance on a common. For more detail as to why this is the case, click below
