Scottish Sea Farms, together with local landowners Haydn Jones and Nick Lyde of Willowstream, are to build the homes within the secluded hamlet of Mill Bay on Eday, one of the smaller Orkney islands with just 76 habitable properties for a population of 129 people.
Costing £750,000, the new development will create four new homes for employees of the nearby salmon farm, helping overcome the lack of available accommodation, with a further two homes available to rent by islanders or visitors.
Scottish Sea Farms' Phil Boardman, Farm Manager at Eday, said, 'We've been farming on the island for over seven years now and while the conditions for growing salmon are superb, the remote location has made recruitment difficult.
'Unless employees live on one of the nearby islands such as Sanday, they face a two-hour commute by boat from Orkney mainland, then have to stay over on one of the islands until their next weekend off, leaving little time for family, food shopping or looking after home and garden. The result is that we have seen valued employees leave with every crop cycle – they loved the job, just not the logistics that go with it.'
Read the full article on the International Aquafeed website, HERE.
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| Eday farm from the roadside Image credit: Scottish Sea Farms |
Costing £750,000, the new development will create four new homes for employees of the nearby salmon farm, helping overcome the lack of available accommodation, with a further two homes available to rent by islanders or visitors.
Scottish Sea Farms' Phil Boardman, Farm Manager at Eday, said, 'We've been farming on the island for over seven years now and while the conditions for growing salmon are superb, the remote location has made recruitment difficult.
'Unless employees live on one of the nearby islands such as Sanday, they face a two-hour commute by boat from Orkney mainland, then have to stay over on one of the islands until their next weekend off, leaving little time for family, food shopping or looking after home and garden. The result is that we have seen valued employees leave with every crop cycle – they loved the job, just not the logistics that go with it.'
Read the full article on the International Aquafeed website, HERE.
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