First Minister announces ‘radical rethink’ on land reform
The First Minister has just announced details of a Land Reform Review Group.He says that a radical review of land reform is intended to deliver a more successful Scotland with stronger communities and...
View ArticleCommunity Land Scotland Chair calls for more radical land reform
As the debate on further land reform gets underway – following the announcement of a land reform review group having been established – Community Land Scotland Chair, David Cameron, has released the...
View ArticleCommunity Land Scotland calls for new land rights – but what are the downsides?
Community Land Scotland has just submitted evidence to the Land Reform Review Group established by the Scottish Government to push forward land reforms.Community Land Scotland is calling for new land...
View ArticleCommunity Land Scotland harvests First Minister as main speaker for June...
First Minister, Alex Salmond, has agreed to be the lead speaker at Community Land Scotland’s 2013 Conference to take place on 7th and 8th June at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, the renowned Gaelic College on...
View Article‘Absentee landlord’ Minister leads SNP charge to make landowners the latest...
There is a hilarious irony in the fact that it is Environment Minister, Paul Wheelhouse who is leading the SNP government’s populist charge to redistribute landownership across Scotland.Wheelhouse said...
View ArticlePR gaffes in Community Land Scotland’s ‘Bunchrew Land Declaration’
The public relations device beloved of Scotland’s First Minister, of giving portentous sounding names to the conclusions of negotiations is a tedious and tacky tactic that can easily backfire.The first...
View ArticleFinal Land Reform report substantial, challenging, provocative, not final
The Scottish Government’s Land Reform Review Committee has just published its final report.It had issued a shockingly slight interim report just under a year ago in early June 2013, which For Argyll...
View ArticleCommunity Land Scotland response to Land Reform Review Group report
While Community Land Scotland will be making a fuller response to the Land Reform Review Group report once it has had time to consider the substantial detail, it has given its preliminary reactions....
View ArticleCommunity Land Scotland chair to call tomorrow for early action on...
Community Land Scotland Chair, David Cameron, will tomorrow, 6th June, call for early action to implement the Land Reform Review Group report which was published on 23rd May.He will do so in his...
View ArticleLack of clarity in Scottish Government’s Land Reform plans weakens validity...
Scottish Land & Estates, which represents landowners and estates across Scotland, today called for greater clarity from the Scottish Government on its Land Reform proposals which could deliver a...
View ArticleCut to the chase on Castle Toward: blatant case for intervention under land...
Tryng to dissect and lay bare the conduct of Argyll and Bute Council in its ‘management’ of Castle Toward [the estate it inherited free from Greater Glasgow Council in local authority rearrangements a...
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