Document Status
Current
Supplement
Sustainability, Environment, Development & Planning
Series
Planning Practice Guidance
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.
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.
Subjects
- Planning and development
- Planning control
- Planning control, England
- Crown land
Publisher History
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.