Owners and tenants of land, whether estates, farms, forestry, moorland, rivers and lochs, or country houses and cottages with land, can be faced with a plethora of land management issues. 

Each of these can involve technical and complex issues.  Our land resources department is able to provide the advice and guidance you need in owning and occupying land.

We act for a diverse range of owners and tenants of land throughout Scotland and have gained a wealth of experience in dealing with the many issues which come up in land management. 

You, as a landowner, may be presented with a standard form of contract to sign at the door or farm gate, which you accept at your peril.  Such proposals may appear straight forward but can have far reaching and unintended consequences, particularly with regard to liabilities.  Whether it is an individual, utilities provider or commercial organisation which approaches you to lead services through or take access over your land, a public body seeking to set up access or cycle paths, nature reserves or exercising other statutory powers or larger commercial schemes and developments we have the knowledge and experience to act for you and help protect you. 

We are also familiar with more specialist questions raised by agricultural tenancies, single farm payment entitlements, rural development grants, minerals exploitation, wind farms, hydro schemes, telecommunications masts, sporting leases and wildlife law, salmon fishing syndicates, diversified businesses, employment law, housing law, crofting and smallholdings issues, developments and options, planning questions, issues of environmental law and the structure of your business.

With four specialists in agricultural law, one in planning and another in charity law, accredited by the Law Society of Scotland, together with a host of experienced solicitors, accountants and others we are ready and able to provide you with our comprehensive service in these complex and technical areas of law. 

We also provide top class technical advice and skill to deal with everyday matters of land management, such as servitudes and wayleaves, letting and sale of cottages, sporting leases and minerals issues, to name but a few.

For more information please contact Alasdair Fox, John Mitchell or Jim Drysdale.