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Dear Rob Hossell

Your information request (1455)

I am writing in relation to your information request of 5 May 2022, which
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From: Rob Hossell <[7][FOI #859113 email]>
Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2022 9:52 AM
To: Enquiries <[8][The Crown Estate request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Statistical Data regarding Land
Sales to Developers

Dear The Crown Estate,

Please supply for the period from 1st April 2018 to the 31st March 2021
and broken down by the years 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21:

Q1. How many land sales (for 5 hectares or more of land) were made to
housing developers by The Crown Estate land where the land sold already
had planning permission?

Q2. How many land sales (for 5 hectares or more) were made to housing
developers by The Crown Estate land where the land sold had no planning
permission but The Crown Estate applied an overage (uplift) condition
(should the housing developer subsequently gain planning permission)?

Q3. How many land sales (for 5 hectares or more) were made to housing
developers by The Crown Estate land where the land sold had no planning
permission but The Crown Estate did not apply an overage (uplift)
condition (should the housing developer subsequently gain planning
permission)?

Q4. When The Crown Estate sells land to a housing developer and applies an
overage (uplift) clause (should the housing developer subsequently gain
planning permission) what is the range of percentage values for an overage
(uplift) condition and what is a typical median percentage value for an
overage (uplift) condition?

Yours faithfully,

Rob Hossell

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Dear Rob Hossell

Your information request (1455)

I am writing in response to your email of 5 May 2022, in which you made an
information request. You requested information for each of the business
years 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21. Thank you for your patience while we have
prepared our response for you.

Please find answers to your questions below:

Q1. How many land sales (for 5 hectares or more of land) were made to
housing developers by The Crown Estate land where the land sold already
had planning permission?

12

Q2. How many land sales (for 5 hectares or more) were made to housing
developers by The Crown Estate land where the land sold had no planning
permission but The Crown Estate applied an overage (uplift) condition
(should the housing developer subsequently gain planning permission)?

There were no such sales.

Q3. How many land sales (for 5 hectares or more) were made to housing
developers by The Crown Estate land where the land sold had no planning
permission but The Crown Estate did not apply an overage (uplift)
condition (should the housing developer subsequently gain planning
permission)?

1

Q4. When The Crown Estate sells land to a housing developer and applies an
overage (uplift) clause (should the housing developer subsequently gain
planning permission) what is the range of percentage values for an overage
(uplift) condition and what is a typical median percentage value for an
overage (uplift) condition?

Not applicable. As a matter of course, The Crown Estate’s approach to
selling land has been through contracts that were conditional to the
purchaser(s) achieving planning permission before the sale could be
completed, therefore the selling price fully reflected open market value
with planning permission, without the need to apply an overage to capture
the uplift in value.

I hope this information is helpful. However, if you are not satisfied with
the way we have handled your request, you may appeal our decision which
will then be investigated through an internal review. Beyond that, you
have the right to refer any complaint directly to the [1]Information
Commissioner.

Yours sincerely

Aimee Gasston

Transparency Manager

Aimee Gasston   |   Transparency Manager
M: +44 7552 863 512   T: +44 20 7851 5046

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From: Aimee Gasston
Sent: Wednesday, June 1, 2022 8:07 AM
To: '[FOI #859113 email]'
<[8][FOI #859113 email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Statistical Data regarding Land
Sales to Developers

Dear Rob Hossell

Your information request (1455)

I am writing in relation to your information request of 5 May 2022, which
we had hoped to be able to respond to by 6 June 2022. However, the
Environmental Information Regulations allow for an extended deadline of 40
working days where the complexity and volume of a request make it
impractical to conclude a request within 20 working days. This is the
situation that applies to your request because we do not hold the
information requested centrally, which means that recorded information for
each sale of potential relevance needs retrieving from different
repositories and cross-checking. I will be in contact again as soon as
possible with a full response. I am sorry if this is disappointing but
would like to assure you that we will respond fully as soon as we can.

Yours sincerely

Aimee Gasston

Transparency Manager

From: Rob Hossell <[9][FOI #859113 email]>
Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2022 9:52 AM
To: Enquiries <[10][The Crown Estate request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Statistical Data regarding Land
Sales to Developers

Dear The Crown Estate,

Please supply for the period from 1st April 2018 to the 31st March 2021
and broken down by the years 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21:

Q1. How many land sales (for 5 hectares or more of land) were made to
housing developers by The Crown Estate land where the land sold already
had planning permission?

Q2. How many land sales (for 5 hectares or more) were made to housing
developers by The Crown Estate land where the land sold had no planning
permission but The Crown Estate applied an overage (uplift) condition
(should the housing developer subsequently gain planning permission)?

Q3. How many land sales (for 5 hectares or more) were made to housing
developers by The Crown Estate land where the land sold had no planning
permission but The Crown Estate did not apply an overage (uplift)
condition (should the housing developer subsequently gain planning
permission)?

Q4. When The Crown Estate sells land to a housing developer and applies an
overage (uplift) clause (should the housing developer subsequently gain
planning permission) what is the range of percentage values for an overage
(uplift) condition and what is a typical median percentage value for an
overage (uplift) condition?

Yours faithfully,

Rob Hossell

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Dear Rob Hossell

Your information request (1498)

Thank you for your further enquiry. I can confirm that is correct.

I hope that this information is helpful. However, if you are not satisfied
with the way we have handled your request, you may appeal our decision
which will then be investigated through an internal review. Beyond that,
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Yours sincerely

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From: Rob Hossell <[FOI #859113 email]>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2022 5:56 PM
To: Aimee Gasston <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Freedom of Information request - Statistical Data regarding
Land Sales to Developers

Dear Aimee Gasston,

Could you please confirm that the developer referred to in Question 3 is
Taylor Wimpey at Orchard Portman, or if not who it is and where is the
site.

Yours sincerely,

Rob Hossell

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