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- The Crown Estate is a diverse property business valued at more than £7 billion. We have been trusted to manage a wide range of properties across the UK including commercial and retail properties. In the country, it includes agricultural land, parkland and forestry. It includes shopping centres, business parks, farms and housing. And we have over half the foreshore and almost all of the seabed around the UK.
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- The Crown Estate's urban portfolio comprises a wide and varied mix of properties ranging from modern purpose-built offices, retail and shopping centres to Grade I listed buildings.
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- Retail
  Prime retail is one of our core sectors.
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Marine
- We manage virtually the entire seabed out to the 12 nautical mile territorial limit, as well as around half of the foreshore.
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- Aggregates
  Our estate includes the rights to explore and utilise the mineral interests of the UK continental shelf.
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Energy
- The Crown Estate is a key player in supporting the delivery of a diverse and secure energy supply for the UK.
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- Offshore wind energy
  As managers of the seabed out to the 12 nm limit, we play a major role in the development of the offshore wind energy industry in the UK.
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Rural
- The rural estate comprises the agricultural, mineral and forestry estates in England, Scotland & Wales, as well as residential and commercial property.
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- Agriculture
  Our agricultural interests include both livestock and arable farming over 106,000 hectares (263,000 acres) across the UK.
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Windsor
- The Windsor Estate covers approximately 6,400 hectares and includes Windsor Great Park, the Home Park of Windsor Castle, extensive forests, residential and commercial properties, golf courses, a racecourse and let farms.
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- The Royal Landscape
  Situated in the southeast corner of Windsor Great Park lies The Royal Landscape, featuring the famous Savill and Valley Gardens.
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Sustainability

We invest in research projects to assess the sustainability of particular activities.

Sustainability

Sustainability

Whether a particular activity is sustainable or not is a key question with regard to the economic uses of the sea. However, the standard consenting processes tend not to include an explicit assessment of such matters. Worldwide, there are many approaches to measuring sustainability but little agreement and none are adopted uniformly. In the UK there are five 'shared principles' of sustainable development, which are agreed across the devolved administrations and the Government.

We are committed to understanding the sustainability of the activities on the assets we manage in great detail. Accordingly, we have developed methods of assessing sustainability through a set of 'objectives', 'indicators', 'measures' and 'metrics', which are mapped onto the sustainable development shared principles. In a full assessment of sustainability, evidence is assembled relating to 32 metrics for a particular activity. A scoring system is then used to derive a value for a sustainability index for the activity. This allows activities to be compared and also provides a greater understanding of the sensitivity of the individual metrics in influencing the overall sustainability index value. We aim to understand the current situation and also work towards improvements in sustainability in the future.

Reports

Reports

Delivering sustainability conference 2009 - presentation 'Matching reality to aspiration'

Coastal Future 2009 - presentation 'Applying a sustainability tool in routine project development'

Sustainability projects

Sustainability projects

Title	Ongoing/ Complete	Brief description	Main contractor	Co-funders
Climate extremes in UK	Ongoing	Updating of climate extremes using latest forecasts for sea level, etc.	D Pugh	N/A
Short-form assessment of sustainability	Ongoing	Production of project level assessment methodology	C Gilbert	N/A
Use of rare earth metals (REM's) in offshore wind generation	Ongoing	Desk study of use of REM's and factors controlling their use	CleanTech	N/A
Socio-economics in relation to MCZ's	Completed	SUDG/CMS workshop to examine socio-economic issues with proposed MCZ's	CMS/ P Barham	N/A
Alternative networks of MCZ's	Completed	Derivation of alternative scenarios for network of MCZ's	ABPmer	N/A