Queen owns Fosse Park and other sites in the region

What does Crown own in East Midlands?

IT’S a property portfolio worth billions but just what land does the Queen actually own?

The monarch holds property in several ways - there is private property belonging to the Queen herself and the land she owns in right of her Crown.

The private property belonging to the Queen includes Sandringham and Balmoral.

Other Royal Palaces and the Royal Parks are owned by the Crown, as is a large quantity of land known as the Crown Estate.

The Crown Estate belongs to the reigning monarch during their reign.

However, it is not their private property - it cannot be sold by the monarch, nor do revenues from it belong to the monarch.

The Government also does not own The Crown Estate. It is managed by an independent organisation, with surplus reve- nue from the estate paid to the Treasury.

Occupied Royal Palaces are maintained by the Royal Household Property

Section, unoccupied palaces are the responsibility of Historic Royal Palaces, and the Royal Parks are managed by the Royal Parks charity on behalf of the Government.

The Land Registry publishes information about commercial owners of property, which includes information on land owned by the Crown Estate and the Duchy of Lancaster.

According to the Land Registry, these organisations own land in 217 out of 348 districts in England and Wales - a total of 7,936 plots.

The Crown Estate owns around half of the UK’s foreshore (the bit of land exposed between high tide and low tide), some substantial areas of coastline and virtually all the UK’s seabed from average low tide to the 12 nautical mile limit.

It also owns mineral rights across around 115,000 hectares where it does not own the surface land. Naturally occurring gold and silver in the UK, collectively known as “Mines Royal”, are managed by the Crown Estate.

So what does the Crown own across the East Midlands?

The Crown Estate and Duchy of Lancaster owns 530 plots in the East Midlands, including mineral rights, mostly in Northamptonshire, agricultural land, and foreshore and beds of rivers including the Trent, and on the coast in places like Skegness.

Among the properties owned by the Crown Estate are:

The Higham Ferrers Campus of Moulton College in East Northamptonshire

Henry Chichele Primary School in East Northamptonshire Rushden Lakes Shopping Centre Victoria Retail Park in Netherfield Fosse Park, Leicester