Farm lets completed by Buccleuch Estates

Published on Friday 10 February 2012 01:05

After years of contraction, the number of let farms in Scotland might rise a fraction with the announcement that Buccleuch Estates has successfully completed the letting of an extensive range of farm land on the Queensberry Estate in Dumfriesshire.

Almost 2,500 acres of mixed use and arable land has been be let in 17 lots and includes whole farm units, land with buildings and bare land.

The land has been let to a combination of farm businesses working with the estate for the first time and existing tenants wishing to expand their enterprises.

Most of the land has been on short limited duration tenancies with a view to extending them beyond the initial five-year period, with 50 per cent of the land being let to businesses working with the estate for the first time and the other half to existing tenants.

Commenting on the moves John Glen, chief executive of the Buccleuch Group, pictured, said he hoped they offered opportunity to new business partners, new entrants to farming and also to existing tenants.

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Wee Shooie

Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 09:22 AM

What happens if the tenant has sold his Single Farm Payment . Will the landlord fine the tenant for selling an asset he had worked hard for???.

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bumpkin

Friday, February 10, 2012 at 09:28 AM

why is there no opportunity to comment on lord gill driving a coach and horses through the 2003 ag holdings act? he has ruled that budgets are not to be used in a rent review!!!!!!!!! that was a central plank of the 2003 act. rent reviews have been driven back 100 yrs. a well healed clown offering a stupid rent is now to set the standard, just as in victorian times. all improvements and sfp belonging to the tenants are to be gifted to the landlord and his grasping lackeys. the clearances are gathering pace!!

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Organic peasant

Friday, February 10, 2012 at 08:49 AM

5 years is not enough time for the paint the tenant puts on the house walls to dry properly agriculture wise. This is another con by the lairds. A group of people so greedy that they have destroyed swathes of rural Scotland for generations. We must have a 25 year term for new tenancies and right to buy now for existing old style agreements. Nothing less will halt the clearance that is in full swing due to SFP theft like Moonzie.

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