Meeting of the Parliament 21 March 2019
I confess that I have not read the report in enough detail to come to a conclusive view on that. I suspect that that might be a selective reading of what is written.
The report is a wake-up call. We need action, and in my closing speech later this afternoon, I will highlight a couple of examples in which flagrant abuse has arisen as a consequence of our collective failure to put in place democratic governance arrangements for land ownership.
For the moment, I look forward to hearing what other members have to say, and I encourage members to support my amendment.
I move amendment S5M-16445.2, to leave out from “community ownership” to end and insert:
“common ownership of land should be the norm and not simply a response to market failure or disputes with landowners; recognises the importance of the Scottish Land Fund in supporting community land and asset buyouts; recognises that the work of the Scottish Land Commission is making a positive contribution to delivering the Scottish Government’s land reform agenda; agrees the importance of ensuring that land reform continues to be a key policy priority to change the entrenched and inequitable pattern of land ownership in Scotland so that everyone can benefit from land, and endorses the findings of the Scottish Land Commission’s investigation into the issues associated with large-scale and concentrated ownership in Scotland.”
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