Publisher:
Community Land Scotland
Alternative Published Date
2024
Type of Resource:
Briefing Paper
Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)
3pp
Fast Facts
Significant change is required to make this a worthwhile and workable set of land reform proposals.
More details
1. Landownership is what matters, not land management:
2. Large scale landownership is not essential to economic development or nature recovery
3. Strengthened proposals which include a Public Interest Test will not fall foul of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
4. ‘Family farms’ will not be significantly impacted by the reduction of the threshold to 500ha
5. The current proposals will not deter investment or economic development
6. Amended and strengthened proposals will not be too expensive to implement
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