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On 8 January 2020, the then Housing Minister, Kevin Stewart, made a statement to Parliament announcing the Government’s proposals for the regulation of short-term lets. I had been campaigning on this topic alongside other MSPs such as Kezia Dugdale for
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There has been quite a stooshie about new short-term letting (STL) regulations. The deadline for applying for an STL license is 1 October 2023 (having been extended for 6 months from 1 April 2023). What is going on? Background I
Continue readingGuest Blog by Jess Smith, Scottish author, musician and story-teller from Perthshire’s Travelling People The Tinker’s Heart is a small arrangement of white quartz stones embedded in the ground at the junction between the road to Strachar (A815) and Hell’s
Continue readingHilltrack on Ledgowan Estate Last year, in a series of blogs, I highlighted a number of issues relating to Ledgowan Estate – in particular the controversy over the construction of an ugly bulldozed track. The story was promoted by an
Continue readingIan McHarg died this day in 2001 (NY Times obituary). He was a Scottish landscape architect who made his name in the University of Pennsylvania where he founded the world famous Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning in1955. He
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