Crown Estate Paving Commission
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The Crown Estate Paving Commission (or CEPC) is the body responsible for managing certain aspects of the built environment of Regent's Park, London.
Its responsibilities include maintaining street lighting and street furniture in the park, maintaining the roadways of certain streets immediately surrounding the park, regulating parking in those streets, collection of domestic refuse and opening and shutting the park gates. The Commission also maintains the terrace gardens adjacent to the public park. The public park itself is managed by The Royal Parks.
The CEPC was established in 1813. It is a separate body from the Crown Estate, which holds the freehold of Regent's Park.
Under the Crown Estate Paving Act 1851, the CEPC has the statutory authority to collect rates from the occupiers of buildings in the streets which it manages. The rates pay for matters which elsewhere are funded by Council Tax, but the occupiers are also liable to Council Tax without relief for the CEPC rates assessed on them[1].
