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Smallholding => Crofting => Topic started by: ricardodba on March 29, 2016, 11:39:52 am

Title: Can i register as a croft??
Post by: ricardodba on March 29, 2016, 11:39:52 am

Hi,

Can i register as a croft?...what does this actually mean?

I have just got my CPH number as intending on keeping a few pigs...but i really dont know what a croft is to be honest.

Sorry for my 'dumb' questions!!

Thanks.

Title: Re: Can i register as a croft??
Post by: Rosemary on March 29, 2016, 11:59:18 am

Where is your landholding?

Title: Re: Can i register as a croft??
Post by: CarolineJ on March 29, 2016, 01:10:01 pm

Nice explanation of what a croft is from Shelter  :)

http://scotland.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/advice_topics/finding_a_place_to_live/crofts_and_crofting/about_crofts_and_crofting (http://scotland.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/advice_topics/finding_a_place_to_live/crofts_and_crofting/about_crofts_and_crofting)

Title: Re: Can i register as a croft??
Post by: ricardodba on March 29, 2016, 03:43:29 pm

Quote from: Rosemary on March 29, 2016, 11:59:18 am

Where is your landholding?

West Yorkshire

Title: Re: Can i register as a croft??
Post by: oor wullie on March 29, 2016, 06:22:29 pm

Afraid not then.  Crofting law is only applicable to holdings in the crofting counties - basically Highlands, Islands and Argyll.

Title: Re: Can i register as a croft??
Post by: ricardodba on March 29, 2016, 07:44:38 pm

Is there an equivalent in England?

Title: Re: Can i register as a croft??
Post by: Rosemary on March 29, 2016, 08:44:58 pm

Nope. Not even a equivalent in the rest of Scotland.