Crofters to receive £100,000 to help map boundaries

Environment Minister Roseanna Cunningham has announced a discounted rate will be available to crofting groups who map the boundaries of their land and submit them to the Registers of Scotland.

The creation of a new map-based register of crofts is among the proposals within the Crofting Reform Bill currently before the Scottish Parliament.

Ms Cunningham told the Parliament’s Rural Affairs Committee the future of crofting, and with it communities in some of the most remote rural areas, was under threat.

She said a register would put an end to boundary disputes, and to help achieve this, subsidies would be available to groups of 10 crofters or more who registered at the same time.

The proposal to establish a definitive Crofting Register will require the compulsory registration of a croft in some circumstances and also includes provisions for voluntary registrations. Registration will cost individual crofters approximately £100 each, though this will be reduced by about £20 per head under subsidised group registrations.

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