King’s Park, Stirling
There’s a bit of a rumpus in Stirling over plans by the Crown Estate Commission to sell the King’s Park to a (yet to be established) public trust for £600,000 (see the Herald story today). The King’s Park is an
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Moscow to Edinburgh Cycle
We (Cathy, daughther Isla and myself) are now back from Ethiopia and on Monday 30 June heading by train and boat via Paris, Berlin and Helsinki to Moscow from where we are cycling back to Edinburgh (we actually start in
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Greetings, Due to problems with accessing my blog from Ethiopia I have installed new software – WordPress – which I shall be using for my Blog. Note that comments in the Who Owns Scotland and the Ordnance Survey story have
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In 2002 I launched a site called whoownsscotland which was designed to document the ownership of land in Scotland. Progress has been slow because it is substantially a voluntary effort though I have had great support form folk in meeting
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Recent work on common good land is reported here [broken link 2023]. This is a major new area of work and one that is very rewarding as people begin to rediscover assets that belong to them that have been forgotten
Continue readingLand Reform in England & Wales 2
Things are happening south of the border. Following the election, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and the Home Office have set up a Working Group to develop proposals for a community right to buy in England and Wales.
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Good news in the Labour Election Manifesto published today – the first signs of a land reform agenda for England and Wales! In Chapter 9 pages 103 – 105 of the Manifesto the Labour Party write the following: – Building
Continue readingFarming Subsidies
Ross Finnie, the Minister for Environment and Rural Development, made an interesting announcement on Wednesday. He said that the Scottish Executive would in future disclose who got what in agricultural subsidies under the new Single Farm Payment Scheme. This follows
Continue readingInnovative Housing Solutions
I’m grateful to my colleague, Graham Boyd for drawing my attention to an excellent report produced for the Mayor of London on Community Land Trusts and Mutual Housing Models. Such solutions could be very appropriate for overheated housing markets in
Continue readingLessons from Assynt 2
The Assynt Foundation’s 3 applications to register an interest in the Vestey Estate have been successful. Congratulations! The original application from the Assynt Foudnation was withdrawn by the applicants (see my post of 5 November). Interestingly, unlike all other applications
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