“”Already the government are being pressed to reduce that down to 500 (hectares), then it’s 200, then it’s 10, then it’s five and suddenly your plot at home, your garden ground could be under threat,” he said.”
Epic scaremongering from a guy with a vested interested in hogging land.
I never understood the end goal here.
Ok, we sell the land in smaller parcels to smaller buyers, then what? You can’t do anything without planning permission, and you will not get planning permission (for example, for a single house) on greenfield
Shouldn’t we also relax planning laws a bit? I can’t even get permission to build a single/modest bungalow next to my parents on their little bit of land. No wonder we have a housing crisisÂ
The drafting/complexity of this bill is pretty insane, and verging on unworkable.
It’s also not fit for purpose because the land has to be in single parcels.
Andy Wightman is excellent on this so I suggest you read Land Matters blog.
The post “Land Reform and the Gentrification of Braemar” is a good starter.
> Ministers have got themselves into a spot of bother in attempting to justify why someone can be the second largest landowner in the country owning tens of thousands of hectares of land and yet, because no one parcel exceeds 1000 ha in extent, their landholding is outwith the scope of the Bill’s key provisions
A bit toothless, what they really need to do is tax vast tracts of land, but Scottish Parliament probably doesn’t have the authority to do that
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“”Already the government are being pressed to reduce that down to 500 (hectares), then it’s 200, then it’s 10, then it’s five and suddenly your plot at home, your garden ground could be under threat,” he said.”
Epic scaremongering from a guy with a vested interested in hogging land.
I never understood the end goal here.
Ok, we sell the land in smaller parcels to smaller buyers, then what? You can’t do anything without planning permission, and you will not get planning permission (for example, for a single house) on greenfield
Shouldn’t we also relax planning laws a bit? I can’t even get permission to build a single/modest bungalow next to my parents on their little bit of land. No wonder we have a housing crisisÂ
The drafting/complexity of this bill is pretty insane, and verging on unworkable.
It’s also not fit for purpose because the land has to be in single parcels.
Andy Wightman is excellent on this so I suggest you read Land Matters blog.
The post “Land Reform and the Gentrification of Braemar” is a good starter.
> Ministers have got themselves into a spot of bother in attempting to justify why someone can be the second largest landowner in the country owning tens of thousands of hectares of land and yet, because no one parcel exceeds 1000 ha in extent, their landholding is outwith the scope of the Bill’s key provisions
A bit toothless, what they really need to do is tax vast tracts of land, but Scottish Parliament probably doesn’t have the authority to do that
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