Findhorn Beach Huts

Eight miles down the Moray coast, Hopeman’s beach huts have a 14-year waiting list, handed down through generations like gold dust. So when Findhorn proposed resurrecting its own huts (absent since the 1950s), 175 objection letters poured in. An eight-to-six council vote in 2015 squeaked them through, followed by a legal challenge that failed. Now up to 30 huts stand on sands that have swallowed entire villages before, built to withstand winters so fierce the architect quipped they’d otherwise end up in Norway.

The fight isn’t over. In 2026, that same architect proposed 15 more huts for the site, and the objections came back almost on cue, over a hundred of them this time, from conservation groups, the local community council, and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency citing flood risk. One longtime resident called the existing structures “wooden atrocities,” while the developer pointed to their appearance on a Royal Bank of Scotland debit card as proof the huts had already won. Whatever happens next, the argument itself has become as much a fixture of Findhorn’s coastline as the huts it’s fighting over.