…the blog and website of Andy Wightman
On Tuesday 27 January, the number of registrations [Note this register is currently unavailable online – Nov 2023] by agricultural tenants under the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003 reached 1000. This is a very signifcant milestone as it means that there are 1000
Continue readingStirling Council seem intent on pursuing a costly proposal to transfer ownership of Crown land in the King’s Park and around Stirling Castle to a public trust at a cost of £600,000. Following the transfer of 26 other historic properties to the Secretary
Continue readingThere’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
Continue readingWe (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
Continue readingGreetings, 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
Continue readingIn 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
Continue readingRecent 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 readingThings 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.
Continue readingGood 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 readingRoss 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
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