How long does the decrofting process for a new house take?

Karen Macrae | 12 May 2025

Providing your croft is registered with the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland, we aim to take a decision on the application within 16 weeks. If your croft is not registered, we cannot take a decsion on your application until this has happened.

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← If a tenant or an owner-occupier decrofts a site, for example a croft house site and garden ground or a building plot, and then buys it and sells it on, the decrofting takes it outwith the ambit of the new legislation as it is no longer subject to Crofting Tenure?

Is there a general time-limit for complying with conditions set out in a decrofting direction. In other words does the direction cease to have effect if the conditions have not been complied with within a particular period? →

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