Common Land Toolkit
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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.
Understanding public goods
Identifying and mapping your public goods will be a key part of preparing for ELM, find more help here
Getting ready for ELM
As you start to look ahead and plan for ELM there’s some groundwork you can be getting done to prepare for an ELM application
Creating a Common Management Plan
Having a Management Plan for your Common is likely to be a key part of Nature recovery and Landscape recovery components of ELM.
DEFRA list of public goods
DEFRA have published an overview of the public goods that will be important for ELM you can read the list here
Identifying public goods on your Common
In preparation for a new agreement you’ll need to take some time to identify and consider the condition of the range of public goods on your Common
What information on public goods do you already have?
There’s a good chance there’ll already be information available about the public goods on your Common.
Maps for Commons Agreements – Getting Started with The Land App
LandApp is a free software package (an App) that enables anyone to create maps of their land from data available on national data sets.
Land App overview introduction
The Land App is free to use digital mapping platform allowing rural teams to work together in real-time to design projects and schemes to transition land management towards best practice.
Magic - Compiling Data on Public Goods on Common Land
Compiling Data on Public Goods on Common Land: Using Magic’s ‘Site Check’ Facility
Creating Maps from UK Soils Observatory
Compiling Data on Public Goods on Common Land: Creating Maps from UK Soils Observatory