SEBG members are committed to representing the interests of land-based businesses and rural communities.

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• Overview
• Code of Practice

SEBG is active across a wide range of issues relevant to rural Scotland.

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• Sustainable Rural Development
  • - Enterprise
  • - Agriculture
  • - Renewable Energy
• Environment
  • - Natural Heritage
  • - Access
  • - Leisure & Tourism
  • - Enjoy Estates Initiative
• Communities
  • - Housing
  • - Community Facilities
  • - Education
• Built Heritage

• Affordable Housing
• Atholl Glens Organic Beef and Lamb
• Community Involvement - Langholm Initiative
• Deer Management
• Enjoy Estates
• Farm to Fork Project - Douglas and Angus Estates
• Langholm Moor Demonstration Project
• Letting of Land to New Entrants - A Roxburghe Estate View
• COTE: Working Together to Sustain Rural Communities
• Climate Change - The Role of Estates
• Creating Opportunities for New Entrants
• Focus on Forestry and Timber
• Food for Thought
• Role of Fishing in Scotland's Rural Economy
• Rural Renewable Energy Conference & Exhibition
• Wildlife Conservation – the Role of Estates

Articles, news releases and publications relevant to SEBG.

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• SEBG News
• SEBG News Archive
• SEBG Publications
• SEBG Publications Archive

If you would like to know more about the Scottish Estates Business Group there are several ways you can contact us.

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• Scotland Map Showing Regional SEBG Contacts

Sustainable Rural Development

Renewable Energy

SEBG member estates are increasingly involved in the development of renewable energy initiatives. Estates are particularly well-placed to play an important part in renewable energy development given the landscape has the wind and the waves to power turbines, the water to drive hydro schemes, and the forestry and crops to provide biomass - the only naturally occurring, energy-containing carbon resource known that is large enough to be used as a substitute for fossil fuels. Rural areas also have the space to house these technologies and the capacity to provide the necessary skills and resources to operate and manage them.

Many parts of the jigsaw of technologies required to reach the Scottish Executive's renewable energy targets are already being pieced together and developed by Scotland's estates, for example:

• On the Argyll Estate , a windfarm site with 9 turbines is being built at Glenshira. Argyll, and consent being sought for a 14 turbine site at Accurrach. A hydro-electric scheme is also being developed, for the River Douglas.
• Buccleuch BioEnergy is at the forefront of Scotland's rapidly expanding wood energy industry.
• The Fasque and Glen Dye Estates are aiming at power self-sufficiency at a micro level and are investigating the installation of woodchip boilers across estate properties.
• The Welbeck Estate , Berriedale, erected the first wind turbine on the UK mainland in 1986.
• The Abercorn Estates , Baronscourt Estate, was one of the first wind farms in Northern Ireland. It consists of ten 500kW turbines capable of an output of five megawatts, enough electricity to supply the needs of approximately 5-6,000 homes. At Belle Isle Estate, the Castle is now heated by a 100KW wood pellet boiler displacing 25,900 litres of oil per annum.

See Case studies & Events - Rural Renewable Energy Conference & Exhibition