Kelso, Scottish Borders
- Land size
- 0.1 acres
Description
PRICED PER PLOT
An excellent opportunity to acquire two separate desirable semi-rural building plots of approximately 0.21 acres in total.
Plot Comprises:
The plots are situated in the heart of the Scottish Borders countryside, within a short drive of the bustling town of Kelso.
Full planning permission has been granted under reference 22/01859/FUL, approving the construction of two three bedroom dwelling houses.
Detailed plans and drawings can be viewed on the Scottish Borders Council planning portal using the reference above.
It is understood that service connections are located close to the site.
Situation
The building plots are located circa 5-miles outside of the Borders Town of Kelso. The town has a wide range of shops, supermarkets, and services as well as excellent schooling including a private nursery, two good primary schools as well as a secondary school, with private schooling available at St Mary’s School in Melrose and Longridge Towers School just outside Berwick-upon Tweed.
The area offers an excellent range of rural pursuits and leisure activities, including superb fishing on the Rivers Tweed and Teviot, as well as extensive opportunities for cycling and walking. Bowmont Forest, situated immediately south of the plots, provides miles of woodland trails and mountain biking routes. There are frequent National Hunt race meetings at Kelso Racecourse and at the Friarshaugh Point to Point. Keen golfers are also well catered for, with the award winning 18-hole championship Schloss Roxburghe Golf Course and Kelso Golf Course both close by.
Edinburgh is within easy commuting reach by car via the A68 or A7, or by the Border Railway, with the station at Tweedbank a easy drive away and has a journey time to Edinburgh of around 55 minutes. Edinburgh international airport lies to the northwest of Kelso while Berwick-upon-Tweed, with its mainline rail link and the A1 lies to the east. Newcastle airport is located to the south.
Mileage
Edinburgh 48 miles, Kelso 5 miles, Berwick Upon Tweed 25 miles.
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Map Location
Property details
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Council Tax Band
- TBC
- Date Posted
- 2026-02-14
Utilities & Restrictions
Utilities
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- Water
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- Heating
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- Broadband
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- Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions
- Public Rights of Way
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- Private Rights of Way
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- Listed Property
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- Restrictions
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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.
Property Features
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- Garden
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Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.
Connectivity
Broadband
Fastest speed available at this postcode
1.8 Gbps
Gigabit full fibre
Suitable for
- 4K streaming on every screen
- Full-time home working
- Online gaming & big downloads
Fixed wireless access may also be an option here.
Mobile signal
Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.
Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.
Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.
Nearest Schools
Primary
- Morebattle Primary School3.4 miles
- Pupils
- 51
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Edenside Primary School3.6 miles
- Pupils
- 258
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Broomlands Primary School3.8 miles
- Pupils
- 249
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Sprouston Primary School4.3 miles
- Pupils
- 13
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Ednam Primary School5.4 miles
- Pupils
- 43
- Type
- Non-denominational
Secondary
- Kelso High School4 miles
- Pupils
- 592
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Jedburgh Grammar School6.8 miles
- Pupils
- 381
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Earlston High School11 miles
- Pupils
- 1,090
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Galashiels Academy16 miles
- Pupils
- 874
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Berwickshire High School16 miles
- Pupils
- 574
- Type
- Non-denominational
Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.
Schools are just the start: planning activity, heritage and any flood history here are in the full report.
Amenities
Supermarket
GP surgery
Pharmacy
Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.
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Getting Around
Nearest station
Nearest bus stop
Typical drive times
Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.
Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.
Flood Risk
From SEPA flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.
Rivers and the sea
Surface water
The detail behind these bandings
The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.
- Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
- Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
- Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
- Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
- Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
- Ground risks (included in the full report)
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