page_title: Newton St Loe
section_title: Duchy of Cornwall
hierarchical_section_title: Newton St Loe / Duchy of Cornwall
caption_attribution_description: English: Duchy of Cornwall office in The Old Rectory, Newton St Loe, Bath and North East Somerset, which is a Grade II listed building.[1] The Duchy of Cornwall website description is: "The largest [Rural Portfolio] office is that at Newton St. Loe, near Bath. Not only is this the headquarters of the Eastern District, which covers the estates in Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire, but it is also home to centralised finance and property services teams, and the Estate Surveyor who manages the commercial property portfolio, the development sites, and the Kennington estate."
context_page_description: Newton St Loe is a small Somerset village and civil parish located between Bath and Bristol in England. The majority of the village is owned by the Duchy of Cornwall. The parish has a population of 681.
context_section_description: The Duchy of Cornwall purchased the Newton Park Estate, which included much property in the village, following the death of 5th Earl Temple in 1941. Together with the adjacent Manor of Inglescombe (Englishcombe) that the Duchy already owned, this created the Duchy's largest estate outside Dartmoor.
  The Duchy's largest rural portfolio office is in the village. This is the headquarters of the eastern district, covering Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Herefordshire, the centralised finance and property services office, and the Estate Surveyor office.
  Plans by the Duchy to build 2,000 houses on greenfield land between the village and the outskirts of Bath have caused controversy. A regional strategy had identified the Duchy's site as an area for development, however after the 2010 United Kingdom general election this was revised and Bath and North East Somerset Council changed its decision about the development, ruling that it should not go ahead on environmental grounds. The Duchy is likely to challenge the decision at a public inquiry during 2011.
caption: Duchy of Cornwall office
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