Watten Development, Watten. KW1
- Land size
- 3.9 acres
Key Features
- Views Towards Loch Watten
- Executive Development
Description
Yvonne Fitzgerald is delighted to bring to the market this excellent opportunity to purchase a prime development site in a tranquil village location with outstanding views towards Loch Watten. This superb site is accessed has its own access which is between Ardwyn and Dongarron, just off the main Wick to Thurso Road and previously had planning consent granted for nine bespoke detached dwellings as well as twelve semi-detached homes.
Extending to approximately 3.9 acres, this level site has drainage nearby, with all further services in close proximity.
Located within a few minutes’ walk to Watten Primary School, the development is near to a convenience store, the post office, and the community hall.
There is also a restaurant/hotel and a fishing loch. The village benefits from good coach links North and South with further facilities being found in both Thurso and Wick, which are a short distance away. Wick is eight miles away, has an airport, train station, hospital, medical centres, shops, supermarkets and secondary school. Thurso is fourteen miles away and has similar facilities apart from the airport.
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Map Location
Property details
- Tenure
- Freehold
- Council Tax Band
- TBC
- Date Posted
- 2026-01-29
Market Value Analysis
Compared with 144 Development Land listings in Scotland (1+ acres).
Utilities & Restrictions
Utilities
- Electricity
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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
- Accessibility
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- Parking
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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
80 Mbps
Superfast
Suitable for
- HD streaming
- Video calls
- Web & social
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
- Watten Primary School146 metres
- Pupils
- 37
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Bower Primary School4.9 miles
- Pupils
- 22
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Halkirk Primary School7.4 miles
- Pupils
- 83
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Keiss Primary School7.9 miles
- Pupils
- 38
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Newton Park Primary8 miles
- Pupils
- 299
- Type
- Non-denominational
Secondary
- Wick High School7.9 miles
- Pupils
- 735
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Thurso High School11 miles
- Pupils
- 753
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Farr High School34 miles
- Pupils
- 68
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Stromness Academy34 miles
- Pupils
- 338
- Type
- Non-denominational
- Kirkwall Grammar School37 miles
- Pupils
- 861
- 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
Green space
Walking trail
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
Mapped within the area searched, not at the advertised map pin itself.
These bandings are the summary. Where this location sits on the flood maps, plus planning activity, heritage and ground risks, is in the full report.
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Yvonne Fitzgerald Properties, Thurso
7 Swanson Street, Thurso, KW14 8AP
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