timeline

1671 Game Act

http://www.british-history.ac.uk/statutes-realm/vol5/pp745-746

1723 Waltham Forest Black Act

1723: 9 George 1 c.22: The Black Act

Seditious Meetings Act, 10 March 1817

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1817/mar/10/seditious-meetings-bill

General Inclosure Act 1845

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/8-9/118

if the commons were within a certain distance of large towns, a proportion of the enclosed land had to be set out for recreation

1847 Town Improvement Act

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/34/contents

consolidated provisions previously in local acts for improvement and simplified procedures for local authorities to acquire land for parks etc, provided the site was no moer than 3 miles from the principal market or the commissioners’ office.

Metropolitan Commons Act

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/29-30/122/contents

Commons Act 1876

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/39-40/56/contents

1877 Open Spaces (Metropolis) Act

Commons Act 1899

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/62-63/30/contents

1908 Commons Act

made provision for agricultural management to control the turning out of animals onto common land

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/8/44/contents

Law of Property Act 1922

abolished copyhold and customary tenancies

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/12-13/16/contents

1925 Law of Property Act

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo5/15-16/20

London Squares Preservation Act

https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1931/dec/08/schedule#S5CV0260P0_19311208_HOC_5

https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/lords/1931/jul/27/part-ii#S5LV0081P0_19310727_HOL_22

10 & 11 Geo. VI c. 51

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1947/51/enacted

Commons Registration Act 1965

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1965/64

1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act

considered a significant achievement and gave new political coherence to the policies and practices of nature conservation in Britain. By the end of the decade, some 8% of the land area of Britain was covered by an SSSI designation.

Carolyn M. Harrison and Jacquelin Burgess, ‘Social constructions of nature: a case study of conflicts over the development of Rainham Marshes’, Trans. Inst. Brit. Geog, 19: 3 (1994), 293.

Town and Country Planning Act 1990

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/8/contents