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Newcastleton | 14th March 2024
 

Far-reaching implications for rural landowners

 
 
Marjorie and Charlie Coffee retired to Abbotshaw Cottage from Merseyside but now access to their home is threatened
 

Gilly Fraser investigates couple’s rural retreat which is under threat from ‘big telecomm’

A Newcastleton couple caught up in a David and Goliath battle say many other people in Scotland could find themselves in the same position.

Marjorie and Charlie Coffee moved to the Borders twelve years ago after retiring from careers in the police force in Merseyside. Their dream of finding a quiet, rural home came true when they spotted a For Sale sign a mile or so outside Newcastleton.

Abbotshaw Cottage was set well back from the road in the middle of land originally owned by the neighbouring farm, also called Abbotshaw. It had its own private access road which had been created some years beforehand by the then farm owner. At the time, rights of access legally termed heritable and irredeemable servitude had been added to the property deeds.

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