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Town or Village Green application.
The legal notice appeared in the Wiltshire Times yesterday.
In addition, notices have been affixed around the area and the owner and lessees have been written to.
The area is described as 'Church Field, Hilperton' and details of how to object are given on the notices.
The application is based on 'a significant number of local inhabitants having indulged in lawful sports and pastimes on the land for a period of more than 20 years and use continuing at the time of application' (24/4/17).
Dog walking, walking in general, kite flying, blackberrying from brambles etc. are all regarded as 'lawful sports and pastimes' so long as you have strayed away from any public right of way to do so.
If you have used the land in this way since 1997 or earlier, the use does not have to have been 'continuous', you can contact churchfieldfriends@gmail.com for more information.
The closing date for objections or additional support is 17.00 hours on Monday 4th September.
Please note that now the Wiltshire Council draft DPD has been published it is currently NOT possible to instigate a Town or Village Green application for any land on the Trowbridge side of Elizabeth Way. However, it is still possible to do so for land on the Hilperton side of the road.
I am pleased to see that at least one group of residents responded to my suggestion in various Hilperton Update newsletters....