Old map is set to play crucial role in coll land battle The Scottish Land Court's interpretation of an old map will play a crucial part in determining a long-running land battle between a crofter and his island neighbours.

Press and Journal, The Aberdeen (UK) | May 15, 2007 | Copyright

The Scottish Land Court's interpretation of an old map will play a crucial part in determining a long-running land battle between a crofter and his island neighbours.

A hearing opened at Oban yesterday to decide whether numerous gardens and a house lie on Coll's common grazing land without the Resumption Order which is necessary under crofting law.

And if the court agrees with Colin Kennedy, the island's sole crofter, about where the common grazing boundaries lie, he could be awarded compensation of half the market value of any land which has been wrongly developed.

The court, chaired by ...

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