189:. It is responsible for a range of rural, coastal, urban and marine assets across Scotland. The monarch remains the legal owner of these assets, but they do not form the private property of the monarch, and cannot be sold by the monarch. The primary purpose of Crown Estate Scotland is to invest in property, natural resources, and places to create lasting value for the people of Scotland. Surplus revenue (i.e. revenue profit after maintaining and enhancing the value of the estate, as per the Scottish Crown Estate Act 2019) does not belong to the monarch, but is paid to the
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over 35,565 hectares (87,880 acres) of land in rural
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394:, i.e. a commercial enterprise under government control. As such it is overseen by a board whose members and chair are appointed by Ministers. Board members are appointed to serve for a two or three-year term, and may not serve for longer than eight years in total. The board appoints a Chief Executive, who is responsible for day-to-day running of the body and is accountable to both Parliament and the Board. As of September 2022 the Chief Executive was Ronan O'Hara.
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Parliament". On 27 November 2014, the commission published a number of recommendations, which included that "responsibility for the management of the Crown Estate's economic assets in
Scotland, including the Crown Estate's seabed and mineral and fishing rights, and the revenue generated from these assets, be transferred to the Scottish Parliament."
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Scotland's main income source is from leases on the property, which is mostly in sectors such as offshore renewables, farming, tourism and aquaculture. The corporation is one of the largest property managers in Scotland, managing assets worth £568.2 million as of 2022. These include
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retail park which represented about 60% of the value of all Crown assets in
Scotland. This was not passed to Crown Estates Scotland with other Scottish properties in 2016. Two years later, the Crown Estate sold its stake and used the funds to assume full ownership of the Gallagher Retail Park in
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in March 2016. This made provision for the devolution for the management and revenues of Crown Estate assets in
Scotland. Crown Estate Scotland was established by The Crown Estate Scotland (Interim Management) Order 2017. Under the Crown Estate Transfer Scheme 2017, the existing functions of the
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Minister David Cameron, with Lord Smith of Kelvin asked to "convene cross-party talks and facilitate an inclusive engagement process across Scotland to produce, by 30 November 2014, Heads of Agreement with recommendations for further devolution of powers to the Scottish
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and the rights and liabilities set out in the transfer scheme transferred from the Crown Estate
Commissioners to Crown Estate Scotland on 1 April 2017. Prior to the handover, the Crown Estate owned a multi-million stake in the
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sites estimated to be capable of generating over 24 GW of electricity in total. In April, all 17 winners had signed options. Crown Estate
Scotland expects that the supply chain industry spends £1.5bn per project.
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and their successors under the Crown Lands (Scotland) Acts of 1832, 1833 and 1835. These holdings mainly comprised former ecclesiastical land (following the abolition of the episcopacy in 1689) in
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