The MOD has launched public consultation on its proposals to revise two undertakings given in respect of land at Warcop Training Area in Cumbria. The original undertakings were given at a public inquiry held in 2001, and were intended to safeguard the future status of the land in the event of it ever being given up by the Department. 

The public inquiry resulted in the rights of common at Warcop, Hilton and Murton commons being extinguished, but the MOD undertook to create new rights of common in the event of the cessation of military training. It also agreed not to remove the land from the register of common land created under the Commons Registration Act 1965. 

With the change in legislation enacted under the Commons Act 2006, the undertakings are no longer appropriate, and would not have been given in their present form had the 2006 Act been in place at the time. However, the MOD still wishes to secure the future status of this land, and has proposed a revised undertaking which...