The legal requirement to have an asbestos survey carried out applies to non-domestic properties. If you own or operate a non-domestic property such as an office, shop, or warehouse, an asbestos survey and management plan must be in place. For domestic properties, there is no legal requirement to have an asbestos survey.
Dunbeath
Dunbeath is a village in south-east Caithness, Scotland on the A9 road. It was the birthplace of Neil M. Gunn (1891-1973), writer of The Silver Darlings, Highland River and so on, a lot of whose novels are embeded in Dunbeath as well as its Strath. Dunbeath has a really abundant archaeological landscape, the site of various Iron Age brochs as well as a very early middle ages reclusive site (see Alex Morrison's historical survey, "Dunbeath: A Cultural Landscape".) Of Dunbeath's landscape, Gunn composed: "These tiny straths, like the Strath of Dunbeath, have this intimate charm. In boyhood we are familiar with every square yard of it. We include it literally and also our memories hold it. Birches, hazel trees for nutting, swimming pools with trout and also an occasionally visible salmon, river-flats with the wind on the bracken and disappearing rabbit scuts, a wealth of wild flower as well as small bird life, the rising hawk, the unexpected roe, the old graveyard, ideas of the folk that when lived far inland in straths and hollows, the past as well as the here and now held in a moment of day-dream." ('My Bit of Britain', 1941.). There is a neighborhood museum/landscape analysis centre at the old village school.
