Publication - Correspondence
Scottish Planning Series: Planning Circular 5 2011: Disposal of Surplus Government Land - The Crichel Down Rules
This circular sets out the revised non-statutory arrangements known as the‘Crichel Down Rules’ under which surplus Government land which wasacquired by, or under a threat of, compulsion should be offered back to formerowners and their successors
Special procedure where boundaries of agricultural land have been obliterated
23. The procedures described in the Annex to these Rules should be followed where changes, such as the obliteration of boundaries, prevent land which is still predominantly agricultural in character from being sold back as agricultural land in its original parcels.