A group of Tory MPs have tabled an amendment to the Countryside Bill, which would give the government the power to reduce the amount that Lords of the Manor can charge people for using common land.
The news comes with a report in The Independent that solicitor David Baldwin is charging Chalfont St Peter homeowners £15,000 each for the right to drive across land to reach their properties.
He has invoked his father’s title of Lord of the Manor of the Buckinghamshire village, which makes him the true and legal owner of the common land.
The Independent 05/02/01 page 7
