Unless crofters individually agree to reduce their souming (grazing) rights by way for instance of a section 5(3) agreement under the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 or the Land Court issues an order suspending or restricting souming (grazing) rights for the period of the development, souming rights would remain unaffected. However, crofters might choose not to use, or modify, their souming where Peatland Action has decided to fund a peatland restoration scheme.
This is without prejudice to the power of grazings regulations to make provision for the alteration of individual soumings and the number and kinds of stock which each crofter is entitled to put on the common grazings.
More information can be found via this hyperlink Guidance for land managers – Grazing peatland