Plan for picnic stop in Muirkirk and similar projects contrast with land system in rest of UK, where state or crown keep assets
The villagers of Muirkirk, a former mining community known for its religious revolutionaries and its footballers, have plans for the derelict petrol station they are about to buy for a knockdown price.
An acre square of crumbling tarmac and scrub, it will soon become a community garden and a picnic stop for tourists travelling through Ayrshire on the A70, thanks to an unusual deal with one of Scotland’s oldest state institutions: the King’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer (KLTR).
