Our Rural Services team brings together lawyers with a sense of history and an understanding of the realities of modern rural life.
Our services include:
- landlord and tenant issues arising from the Agricultural Holdings legislation, Land Court applications and Single Farm Payment entitlements including all aspects of agricultural law
- crofting law, including resumptions, decrofting, crofting community buy-outs
- renewable energy, including dealing with lease documentation, funding and company formations for wind farms, hydro-electric schemes, biomass plant
- feudal Dignities, including the sale, purchase and registration of baronies, lordships and earldoms, legal and historical research, dealing with hearings in the Court of the Lord Lyon
- servitudes for access and services, private water and drainage systems, public access code issues
- sporting rights, shooting and fishing rights, including salmon fishings and related property issues
- minerals, including options for leases for sand and gravel, coal and peat extraction
- buying, selling and leasing all types of rural property
- telecommunications and radio masts
- community buy-outs including advising landowners and community companies
- commercial and residential developments on greenfield sites
We represent clients who have owned their estates for centuries, providing them with a wide range of legal advice. In addition we advise farmers, crofters, renewable energy developers, rural charities, hostelling bodies and numerous other companies and private individuals. Clients include the Argyll and Lochiel Estates, Edinburgh University, the Scottish Youth Hostels Association, Rosslyn Chapel Trust and high-profile individuals such as the TV personality, Uri Geller.
Latest service news & features
Secretary of State to speak on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy
12 March 2012
Local MP and Secretary of State for Scotland Michael Moore is to speak to professionals working in agriculture in the Scottish Borders on CAP reform.
The Legal 500 2011 The Clients Guide to the UK Legal Profession“Lindsays’ ‘very professional’ team provides an ‘excellent level of service’.”
Michael Yellowlees, Head of Rural Property“Our Rural Services team deals with all aspects of property law outwith the 30mph speed limit. It is a branch of law which Lindsays has been involved in for over 200 years and which is crucial to the Scottish economy.”
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