Regulator Profile
The Crown Estate
Enforcement Regulator2
Areas of regulation
39
Laws enforced
UK-wide
Quick links
Offshore Wind
Seabed Leasing
What The Crown Estate does
Manages Crown land and seabed around England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Grants leases for offshore wind farms, tidal, and wave energy projects. Key gateway for offshore renewable energy development.
Additional information
Offshore Wind Leasing Round 4 and Celtic Sea rounds. Scotland: Crown Estate Scotland (separate body).
Legal framework
Legislation that The Crown Estate enforces.
Primary legislation
- Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 - full legislation Act 2000
- Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 Act 1991
- Agriculture Act 2020 Act 2020
- Caravan Sites and Control of Development Act 1960 Act 1960
- Continental Shelf Act 1964 Act 1964
- Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, Schedule 1 Act 2000
- Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, Section 14 Act 2000
- Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000, Section 22 Act 2000
- Crown Estate Act 1961 Act
- Crown Estate Act 2025 Act 2025
- Energy Act 2004 Act 2004
- Energy Act 2008 Act 2008
- Finance Act 2025 Act 2025
- Fisheries Act 2020 Act 2020
- Forestry Act 1967, Section 24 Act 1967
- Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009 Act 2009
- Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009, Part 4 Act 2009
- Riding Establishments Acts 1964 and 1970 Act 1964
- Water Act 2014 (Flood Re provisions) Act 2016
Secondary legislation
- Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 UK Statutory Instrument 2015
- SSAFO Regulations 2010 UK Statutory Instrument 2010
- Agriculture (Delinked Payments) (Reductions) (England) Regulations 2025 UK Statutory Instrument 2025
- Agriculture (Safety of Children and Young Persons) Regulations 1956 UK Statutory Instrument 1956
- Animals (Penalty Notices) (England) Regulations 2023 UK Statutory Instrument 2023
- Cattle Compensation (England) Order 2019 UK Statutory Instrument 2019
- Contaminated Land (England) Regulations 2006 UK Statutory Instrument 2006
- Contaminated Land (England) Regulations 2006, Regulation 2 UK Statutory Instrument 2006
- Disease Control (England) Order 2003 UK Statutory Instrument 2003
- Electricity (Class Exemptions from the Requirement for a Licence) Order 2001 UK Statutory Instrument 2001
- ... and 10 more statutory instruments
Sectors regulated
Fixed-bottom offshore wind