Surrey County Council
Commons Registration Act 1965
Notice of application for registration of land claimed to have become Common land after 2nd January 1970
To every reputed owner, lessee, tenant or occupier of any part of the land described below, and to all others whom it may concern.
Application has been made to the registration authority, the Surrey County Council, Woodhatch Place, 11 Cockshot Hill, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 8EF under section 13 of the Commons Registration Act 1965 by
1) Surrey County Council Legal Services, 1st Floor, Dakota, De Havilland Drive, Weybridge, Surrey, KT13 0YP, and
2)Surrey Heath Borough Council, Knoll Road, Camberley, Surrey, GU15 3HD, and
3)National Highways Ltd, Bridge House, 1 Walnut Tree Close, Guildford, Surrey GU1 4LZ
under section 13 of the Commons Registration Act 1965 for the inclusion in the Register of Common Land of the land described at Annex A below, which it is claimed became common land on 3 November 1970 (plot 78) and 19 January 2009 (plots F and G) in substitution for the land described at Annex B below, which, it is claimed, ceased to be common land on that date, under and by virtue of a Compulsory Purchase Order dated 3 November 1970 and an Order of Exchange dated 19 January 2009.
The application, which includes a plan of both areas, may be inspected at the offices of the Countryside Access Team, Whitebeam Lodge, Merrow Depot, Merrow Lane, Guildford, Surrey, GU4 7BQ and copies of the application and plans may be inspected at the following local authority offices: -
Surrey Heath Borough Council, Surrey Heath House, Knoll Road, Camberley, Surrey. GU15 3HD
If the registration authority is satisfied that the land described at Annex A below has become common land as claimed, it will so register the land, and such registration will be conclusive evidence of the status of the land as at the date of registration. The land described at Annex B below will then be removed from the register.
Any person wishing to object to the registration of the land as common land or to the removal from the register of the land described at Annex B below should send a written and signed statement of the facts on which he bases his objection to Surrey County Council, Countryside Access Team, Whitebeam Lodge, Merrow Depot, Merrow Lane, Guildford, Surrey, GU4 7BQ so as to arrive not later than 9 March 2026
Dated 23 January 2026
Signed: Asmat Hussain, Director - Law and Governance (on behalf of the registration authority)
Annex A: Description of the land claimed to have become common land
(1) Monks Walk (also known locally as Barrow Woods or Longcross Woods) – plot 78
(2) Land west of Windsor Road (Plot F)
(3) Chobham Place Fields (Plot G)
Annex B: Description of the land claimed to have ceased to be common land
Parts of Chobham Common coloured pink and labelled A1-A16, B, C and D and registered under the 1965 Act as CL326