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Written Question · S2W-10206 · Session 2

Whether it will list areas of land owned by (a) it and (b) the Crofters Commission and used for the Livestock Improvement Scheme administer…

Answered Asked by John Farquhar Munro LD Lodged 1 Sep 2004

The question

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list areas of land owned by (a) it and (b) the Crofters Commission and used for the Livestock Improvement Scheme administered by the Crofters Commission in each of the last 10 years that have been sold to third parties, detailing (i) the name and acreage of plot sold, (ii) sale price and (iii) the name of the purchaser and whether it will produce a plan of the land sold in each year.

The answer

Answered by Allan Wilson on 28 Sep 2004 · 27 days after it was lodged, on time

All the land used for the purposes of the Livestock Improvement Scheme over the last 10 years has been land owned originally by the Secretary of State for Scotland and now owned by Scottish ministers. Details of sales in the last 10 years, of land used for Livestock Improvement Scheme purposes are as follows:

| Description of Land

| Area in Hectares
| Sale Price
(£)
| Date of Sale
| Purchaser


1.
| Beechwood
Land adjacent to cottage No. 4
|

0.011
|

1,000
|

15/12/2003
|

Andrew Waugh


2.
| Beechwood
Land at Cradlehall Farm Road
|

0.361
|

7,500
|

31/10/2003
|

Tulloch Homes Limited


3.
| Knocknagael
No. 6 Knocknagael land and building
|
0.110
|
22,500
|
3/4/1996
|
Hector Jack Macdonald and Catherine Medley Macdonald

4.
| Wester Aberchalder
Farm
|
841.028
|
380,000
|
11/11/1994
| Hon. Alexander Andrew MacDonell Fraser


5.
| Wester Aberchalder
Land adjoining north bungalow
|
0.024
|
100
|
23/10/1995
|
Mary Campbell and Catherine Campbell


6.
| Wester Aberchalder
Land adjoining south bungalow
|
0.082
|
100
|
3/11/1995
|
Archibald Neil Kirkland and Fiona Mary Latham


7.
| Wester Aberchalder
Land adjoining kennel cottage
|
0.236
|
2,200
|
11/1/1996
|
Iain Murdo MacLeod Stoddart


Plans of all the properties showing the areas which have been sold and of each of the plots which have been sold will be lodged in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. number 33746).

In the Official Report

No contribution in the Official Report cites S2W-10206 by reference.