Carbeth Hutters buy their forest home after bank loan

Wed Mar 20 22:14:50 GMT 2013

A welcome in Yorkshire when the Tories were gunning for single parents
In her valedictory dispatch from Hebden Bridge to 
the Guardian Northerner, Jill Robinson recalls 
how she came to the town nearly 30 years ago and immediately felt at home
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/2013/mar/20/bernard-ingham-hebden-bridge-calderdale

Carbeth Hutters buy their forest home after bank loan
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/scotland-blog/2013/mar/20/scotland-carbeth-hutters-buyout>http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/scotland-blog/2013/mar/20/scotland-carbeth-hutters-buyout
Seen as pioneers of the Scottish hutting 
movement, the Carbeth hutting cooperative near 
the Campsie Fells has found £1.75m to buy their 
land, more than 80 years after first setting camp
The Carbeth Hutters, the community of 
self-sufficient cabin-owners near the Campsie 
Fells which has helped inspire a national hutting 
revival, has succeeded in buying all its land and forest from their landlord.
After fifteen years of often rancorous disputes, 
a rent strike and then careful negotiation with 
the owner, the Carbeth Hutters Community company 
has bought their 90 acres of land  valued at 
£1.75m, after securing a vital loan from the Triodos bank.
The community of more than 140 huts, which varies 
from modern kit buildings, smartly-painted cabins 
through to hand-built, idiosyncratic huts, was 
originally founded in the 1920s and 1930s by 
socialists and communists wanting an escape from Glasgow and Clydebank.
Its low-impact lifestyle is highly-prized and 
protected. There is no mains electricity or mains 
water; just standpipes, gas lamps (some of 
pre-war vintage) and a motley collection of 
micro-wind turbines and solar panels.
In a statement issued to announce the purchase, 
Morven Gregor, the community company's chairwoman, said:
The future of hutting is now in our own hands. We 
look forward to keeping hutting alive in the 
twenty-first century, building on traditions 
going back to the 1920s. It's been an exciting 15 
years. The next 15 will be equally exciting.
Gerry Loose, its secretary, added:
Carbeth can now begin to celebrate its part in 
Scotland's history and open its doors to all 
comers to see how we did it and why it matters to Scotland's heritage.
Along with several other long-established hutting 
communities, Carbeth has been a central part of 
the Thousand Huts movement set up to promote 
hutting in Scotland as a sustainable way of 
building rural retreats and low-impact housing.
Across Scandinavia, hutting is embedded in 
mainstream life: in Norway alone, there are 
thought to be nearly 430,000 cabins and holiday 
chalets, perched on lakesides, island and 
mainland coasts and deep in its forests.
In 2010, the community settled a long-running 
rent strike with its owner Allan Barns-Graham, 
who agreed to give them three years to raise the 
capital needed to buy the forest grounds. The 
deal includes its lido, an open air swimming 
pool, and land used by the original "fellowship 
camp" where the community took root.
The leases is due to be signed on Sunday, at 
Edmonstone Hall, Blanefield just nearby.
And their success was applauded by the 
Barns-Graham family, which has owned the estate 
for more than a century; they said the size of 
the buy-out was rare given the economic climate. 
They praised the hutters "tireless" work since 2010 to raise the money needed.
Over the same period and prior to purchase, CHCC 
has established a very successful track record in 
managing the hutting operation. This has given 
their funders, Triodos Bank, the confidence it 
requires to help fund the acquisition.
This is particularly remarkable because the 
financing of any land purchase is so very 
difficult in the current economic climate. There 
must surely be very few land transactions of this 
type and magnitude in the UK at the present time.
The Barns-Graham family is extremely proud, as I 
know CHCC is too, for what has been achieved and 
together we look forward to see the Carbeth 
hutting operation develop in the years ahead.

 6.55pm update: Gerry Loose has clarified that 
the leases referred to above are for the 140 hut 
owners, who take out leases with CHCC. The CHCC is already the land owner.

At 21:21 20/03/2013, you wrote:
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>>To: RS Hutters 
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>>Subject: Carbeth hutters own their land
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>>Great news and well done to the Carbeth hutters

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>>A first major step of the revival of huts and hutting in Scotland
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