Huts and hutting in Scottish Woodlands – time for change?
by Angus, 26 November, 2013, 5 comments
In England and Wales people are concerned about what sort of shed you are allowed to put up in a woodland and indeed there is much planning history on the subject, but in Scotland similar questions are described as "hutting" issues. Woodland owners need somewhere to store their tools and to shelter when it rains wherever they are. But in Scotland, there is a distinctive history of hutting - during the interwar years (1919 to 1938), Glaswegians wanted to spend time outside Glasgow at the weekends and for short holidays, so they arranged to build a series of huts at Carbeth and elsewhere. Read more...
