Crossrail set up an Acquisitions team to acquire land and property, both on the surface and subsoil, and an Estates team to manage the land while it is Crossrail’s responsibility. This topic area includes papers explaining the processes used to manage a large acquisition programme, to communicate sensitively with owners, to take possession, and to record, secure and manage the construction estate.
| Summary | Publication date | Document Type |
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 Land Acquisition for CrossrailTopic area: Land Management and Estates The land acquisition process undertaken for Crossrail has been amongst the most complex ever undertaken in the UK, given the extent of the project from Reading and Heathrow in the west through to Shenfield and Woolwich to the east and south east of London, and including two 21km tunnels through the heart of the west en... |
09/07/2018 | Micro-report |
 Managing the Largest Construction Estate in EuropeTopic area: Land Management and Estates This paper explains how estate land and property is successfully managed throughout the life of a major construction project. It will briefly touch on the control measures used to track, record and account for a change of contract activity over a large footprint in excess of 5 million square metres. It will summarise h... |
19/09/2017 | Micro-report |
 Physically Managing Possession of Land and PropertyTopic area: Land Management and Estates This paper identifies the implications and practical solutions on how best to take possession of land and property using Parliamentary powers and successfully manage that land during the course of a major project. It identifies who needs to be involved in the lead up to and delivery of possession, highlights what to av... |
19/09/2017 | Micro-report |
 Third Party Technical Interface ManagementTopic area: Civil Engineering The Elizabeth line traverses some of London’s most dense and evolving metropolitan areas. Safeguarding of the route has played an important part since the identification of a tunnelled route back in the early 1990s, following promoters’ recognition of the need to preserve and protect necessary building space and to... |
14/02/2023 | Technical Paper |
 Organising the Crossrail consultation programmeTopic area: Pre-application Consultation This case study explains how Crossrail ran the pre-authorisation consultation process, including setting the strategy, identifying consultees, communicating with property owners, what guidance existed and was used, establishing a helpdesk and a stakeholder database, production of material, resourcing and briefing engin... |
13/03/2018 | Case Study |
 Workflows for Managing Land and Property InformationTopic area: Information Management and Technology Crossrail needed to acquire and manage large areas of land during the Crossrail project, the purpose being to construct a new railway through Central London. This micro report outlines how the spatial element has been central to the management of this land from purchase and occupancy by a multitude of contractors, thro... |
27/09/2016 | Micro-report |
 Mobile mapping for land managementTopic area: Geographical Information Systems (GIS) A mobile GIS solution was deployed by Crossrail using easily customisable apps on mobile/tablet devices. Site boundaries and land ownerships were verified during Crossrail construction works to ensure health and safety regulation was adhered to. A cloud-based central repository ensured both site and office users had th... |
26/02/2016 | Micro-report |
 Information Gathering leafletTopic area: Pre-application Consultation Crossrail needed to make enquiries to establish land ownership, and carry out ground investigation at the earliest stages of scheme development, before public consultation. This leaflet was created to explain the project and provide contact details to members of the public who were impacted by those information gatheri... |
01/05/2003 | Good Practice Document |