The Crescent Lawn Company (CLC) was formed in 2003 with the purpose of holding the title to the Lawn and its boundaries and managing their upkeep on behalf of the Society. Absolute Title was granted to the Company on 8th April 2003; the document can be seen by clicking here. Acquisition of the title does not affect residents’ rights to use the Lawn as enshrined in their Leases or Freeholds.

The Company is run by a Board of Directors who all serve on the Society's Committee. The Company's actions and decisions are guided by and are always in the best interests of the Society. Membership of the Company is open to residents of the Royal Crescent only; an application form can be obtained by clicking here.

The Royal Crescent Society has long championed the restoration of the Lawn's Railings and of the Ha-ha itself. The CLC has initiated a project to achieve this and with Royal Crescent Society funds and a Heritage Lottery Fund grant has entered into partnership with the local authority, Bath & North East Somerset Council (B&NES) to progress the work. The current target for completion is December 2006.

Ever since the Royal Crescent was built, the Lawn has been a privately maintained area, with residents’ rights of use. The Lawn is therefore not generally open to non-residents, as displayed on notices around it and controlled by the locking of the railings gates (to which residents can obtain keys from RCS Secretary).

However, the CLC welcomes appropriate events on the Lawn, using the fees charged to maintain the grass and the boundaries; recent events have varied from the Three Tenors’ Concert in 2003 to a small private wedding-cake cutting party for 70 people in 2005. Requests for use of the Lawn may be made to the Company at Number 22

Stephen Little (Chairman, The Royal Crescent Society & Crescent Lawn Company Ltd)

"Wood's Royal Crescent is carefully sited within the landscape and this is essential to the success of the building which rises from what is now a gently sloping Lawn. This space was perhaps the only response to the scale and monumental style of the building. It was also in keeping with the, by then, fashionable landscapes of Capability Brown... Pevsner say of Royal Crescent, "Nature is no longer the servant of architecture. The two are equals. The Romantic Movement is at hand"... Royal Crescent reflects the later fashionable "Brownian" landscape of a country house rising from the turf of a parkland setting". (Christopher Pound, Genius of Bath, 1986)