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Summary

This research considers the operation of the Crichel Down Rules - non-statutory guidance which requires that all surplus land acquired by or under threat of compulsion is offered back to former owners or their successors.

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• The Operation of the Crichel Down rules
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• The Operation of the Crichel Down rules
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• Figure 5.1: Reasons for no case analysis
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• Figure 5.2: Organisations' assumptions on the application of the rules
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• Figure 5.3: The status of the rules
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• Figure 5.4: Disposal guidance and the rules
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• Figure 5.5: Disposals by date and outcome
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• Figure 5.6: Reasons for not offering site to former owner
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• Figure 5.7: Difficulties encountered in applying the rules
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• Figure 5.8: Case analysis - type of organisation
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• Figure 5.8a: Full database
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• Figure 5.8b: Database excluding Highways Agency cases
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• Figure 5.9: Land use
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• Figure 5.10: Outcome of individual disposals
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• Figure 5.11: Purchase rate by organisation type
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• Figure 5.12: Purchase rate by land use type
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• Figure 5.13: Years in public ownership by organisation
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• Figure 5.14: Years in public ownership
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• Figure 5.15: Reasons Crichel Down rules do not apply
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• Figure 5.16: Practical difficulties met - excluding Highways Agency cases
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• Figure 5.17: Time in public ownership - problem cases
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• Appendix 1: The Crichel Down rules
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• Appendix 2: Bibliography
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• Appendix 3: Treasury Circulars 1/66 and 1/67
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• Appendix 4: Memorandum by Her Majesty's Treasury (22 April 1970)
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• Appendix 5: Organisations' disposals guidance and consideration of the rules
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• Appendix 6: Organisational and sector studies
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• Appendix 7: Case studies
  PDF, 71 kb , 20 pages
• Appendix 8: Acknowledgements
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