The Commission can provide an assurance that an owner of a vacant croft will not be called upon for proposals to let the vacant croft providing they are (i) cultivating* the croft or putting the croft to another purposeful use (examples of purposeful use include tourism, the production of renewable energy. livery etc.) and (ii) they are residing on or within 32 kilometres (20 miles of the croft).
*Cultivating includes the use of a croft for horticulture or for any purpose of husbandry, including the keeping or breeding of livestock, poultry or bees, the growing of fruit, vegetables and the like and the planting of trees and use of the land as woodlands