Excerpt and Photo from thenational.scot
Julie Walker, Mull’s only pharmacist, sold her business and left the island but the sale fell through and she had to return to Mull to continue the business – but found herself homeless.
However, thanks to the generosity of local doctor Jennifer Jack, who had been left a surplus property after the death of her mother, the future of both the pharmacist and her Tobermory pharmacy has been secured.
The development came about through the use of the Rural Housing Burden by Mull and Iona Community Trust (MICT).
MICT was appointed as a designated Rural Housing Body in 2014 by the Scottish Government, giving the charity legal powers to place burdens on titles of properties. The burden is a means of ensuring that the property must be lived in as a permanent home and that MICT has first refusal to buy it, should it be offered for sale in the future. The pre-emptive right of purchase remains with the title of a property in perpetuity, which will ensure that the property will never become a second home or short-term holiday let.