Our Summary

• Over 17,000 acres (6,880 ha) of peat-based soils of variable depth with a feasibility study identifying a 1,400-acre (566 ha) area with restoration and carbon accreditation potential under The Peatland Code subject to grant funding application
• Extensive potential for further native woodland enhancement and creation with associatedcarbon accreditation opportunities under the Woodland Carbon Code
• Potential for future wind development with an Exclusivity Agreement signed in favour of a Wind Developer
• A range of redundant 19th Century estate buildings together with other sites offering residential development and/or eco-tourism potential, subject to planning
• On account of its scale and composition, together with its mix of stakeholders and future opportunities, South Sleat Estate offers exceptional potential for purchasers to embrace landmanagement and nature restoration which provides extensive local, national and internationalcommunity benefit and can create a legacy of which the future owner, the community of Sleat, the Isle of Skye and the wider Scottish public can be truly proud
• Within the let subjects – with an attractive southerly aspect lying about 50 metres from the public road – is a stone and tile-roofed bothywhich has potential for residential development subject to both resumption from the tenancy andplanning consent
• RENEWABLE ENERGYIn order to enable the charity, together with the crofting and wider local community, to benefit in the event of a wind energy development on the estate being both feasible and approved by the Highland Council/Scottish Ministers, the vendorshave entered into an Exclusivity Agreement with a developer – GGE Scotland Ltd
• The Exclusivity Area incorporates land subject to varying tenure and therefore – in the event of asuccessful planning application for development and the commissioning of a constructed wind farm – the revenue under the lease will be shared (subject to negotiation and agreement) amongst the various stakeholders in addition to thelandowner
• PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENTWhile there are no existing dwellings forming part of the subjects of sale, there are several sites which offer the potential for the developmentof residential, commercial or quasi-commercial facilities in future, subject to due diligence andplanning consent
• The site is served by mains electricity and water together with private drainage and offers rich potential for development for a variety of usesincluding as a future principal house serving the estate or for several residential units and/or retail/commercial space
• With part of the subjects of sale lying within the overall site of the Kilbeg Village Development Plan, there is a particular site with good access fromthe public road and a fine outlook which lends itself to a residential and/or commercial development subject to due diligence and planning
• This has the potential to be an outstanding site for the development of a single dwelling in future, subject to planning
• Lying to the west of Loch a’ Ghlinne overlooking the shore at Inver Dalavil is the ruin of a former bothy which presents another superbly locatedpotential development site
• At its edge is a small field enclosed by substantial drystone walls, which offers the potential for a new dwelling with fine sea views to the Black Cuillin mountain range, subject to planning