…the blog and website of Andy Wightman
[UPDATE 30 May 2013 This blog is an edited version of the one published yesterday (pdf copy here) in which I incorrectly argued that there was only one review promised in the SNP manifesto. There were in fact two
Continue readingThis guest blog is reproduced with the kind permission of the Daily Record. This land is our land.. so let people have their say Torcuil Crichton 27 May 2013 ON a rare, dry Friday on the Atlantic coast of Lewis
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Following yesterday’s Guest Blog by John Bryden, former land reform adviser to the Scottish Office, we are delighted to publish the thoughts of Brian Wilson on the topic. Brian was one of the founders of the West Highland Free Press,
Continue readingWe are delighted to host this Guest blog from John Bryden who was External Adviser to the Scottish Office Land Reform Policy Group (LRPG) 1997-1999. John delivered the 3rd John McEwen Memorial Lecture in 1996 and now lives and works
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It is probably quite appropriate that today, within 24 hours of publishing her Interim Report, the Chair of the Land Reform Review Group, Alison Elliot, is giving the keynote address to Scottish Land and Estates AGM at Perth racecourse. (1)
Continue readingI studied forestry at Aberdeen University at the time of the rapidly expanding afforestation of the Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland. One day, the Chief Executive of Fountain Forestry, the company that was the leading player in this misadventure,
Continue readingScottish Ministers are 220 days late in making a decision as to whether to register an interest submitted by a community group Durness in relation to the Cape Wrath lighthouse. The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 contains provision in Part
Continue readingThe Land Reform Review Group (LRRG) is due to publish its first report in the next few weeks. The Group, set up as an independent policy review group by the Scottish Government in October 2012 has been given the task
Continue readingA stooshie has been created by the publication of a Church of Scotland report The inheritance of Abraham? A report on the ‘promised land’. The report has been removed from the Church of Scotland’s General Assembly website page and replaced
Continue readingThe Forestry Commission is planning to sell the 790 hectare Tioran Forest on the Isle of Mull and have advised the community that it has the opportunity to acquire it under the National Forest Land Scheme (NFLS). I have blogged about
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