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Crown development and urgent Crown development
Publication Year
2025
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Comprises planning practice guidance focusing on Crown land and development. Covers: definitions of Crown land; application to the Crown; Nationally Important Crown Development; urgent Crown development; Crown permitted development rights; national security - applications; national security - procedure; and sensitive information in planning applications.
Document History
Last updated: 12 May 2025 - Added new paragraphs 042 to 066 and made further amendments to reflect the implementation of the new Crown Development route and updated Urgent Crown Development route which were introduced through the Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/crown-development and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 6 March 2014.
Publisher Information
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.
2 Marsham Street
London
MHCLG
UK
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-and-local-government
