Decrofted Areas - Scotland

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Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Last updated:
06 March 2025
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Summary

Decrofting is taking land out of crofting. This means that the land is no longer subject to the laws that apply to croft land.

The Crofting Commission will usually only allow land to be decrofted using a part croft decrofting application if it is for a reasonable purpose. Some examples of reasonable purposes include:

  • Building houses
  • Building harbours, piers, boat shelters,
  • Churches,
  • Schools,
  • Halls, or community centres
  • Building roads
  • Generating energy
  • Purposes likely to provide employment for crofters and others in the locality

This dataset provides the actual polygons of decrofted areas with various details about status, type, date decrofted etc.

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Crofting Commission guidance N/A 06 March 2025 Not available
Decrofted Areas - Scotland ckan page N/A 06 March 2025 Not available
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Additional information

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Added to data.gov.uk
2025-03-05
Access contraints
Limitations on public access
Harvest GUID
a5c082db-a5ed-411d-93e0-1cb7d2defae8
Extent
Latitude: 60.8608° to °
Longitude: -8.65° to -0.7244°
Spatial reference system
Dataset reference date
2025-03-05 (revision)
Frequency of update
asNeeded
Responsible party
The Improvement Service (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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