Types of applications and notifications (sorted A-Z)

Another purposeful use: To use your croft for something other than cultivation.

Application by former subtenant to remain in occupation of croft: To continue stay on a croft after a sublet ends.

Apportionment: To enclose an area of common grazings for your own use

Apportionment - extension of the period of a termed apportionment: To extend the time of your termed apportionment. 

Apportionment - review of an apportionment: To have the conditions of an apportionment reviewed (such as boundary fencing).

Assignation: To transfer a croft tenancy to another person.

Assignation of a grazing share: To transfer a grazings share to another person.

Change of contact details: To notify us if your contact details have changed. 

Change of ownership: To notify us if you have purchased a croft.

Consent to be absent: To get consent to live more than 32km from your croft for a set period.

Creating a new croft: To establish a new croft.

Crofter forestry: To create forestry on common grazings land.

Decrofting (house and garden): To remove an existing house and garden from crofting tenure.

Decrofting (part croft): To remove part of a croft from crofting tenure.

Decrofting (Section 17 or 18 Feu): To remove a specific type of site (Section 17 or 18 Feu) from crofting tenure.

Decrofting (whole croft): To remove an entire croft from crofting tenure.

Division: To split a croft into two or more separate crofts. 

Division (house site): To separate a house from a croft based on a will.

Division of grazings shares: To divide grazings share into two or more shares.

Enlargement: To add non-croft land to your existing croft.

Exchange of croft land: To swap croft land with another croft that has the same landlord.

Intestate succession: To transfer a croft when the crofter has died without a will.

Letting: To award a croft tenancy.

Letting grazings share: To award a grazings share tenancy.

Renunciation of a croft tenancy: To give up a croft tenancy.

Resumption: To notify us about the removal of land from crofting tenure (landlords).

Short-term let: To allow someone else to use your croft for a set period (owner-occupier crofter).

Suspected breach of duties: To report a crofter you suspect is not fulfilling their duties.

Suspected failure by the owner of a vacant croft to cultivate and/or reside on or near a croft: To report an owner of a vacant croft who you suspect is not cultivating their croft or living on or near it.

Subletting: To allow someone else to use your croft for a set period (tenant crofter).

Subletting of grazings shares: To allow someone to use your grazings shares for a set period.

Testate succession of a croft tenancy (bequest): To transfer a croft when the crofter has left a will.