Talking about land reform

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Scotland is now talking about land reform.

A new Consultation on the Future of Land Reform in Scotland, which follows on from the programme for government launched last week, gives interested parties until 10 February 2015 to respond on its various proposals. Those proposals have been developed from the 62 recommendations of the Land Reform Review Group. In a well-presented Annex to the Consultation, those Recommendations are put in a table alongside the Scottish Government’s plans for them. Whilst a few items have been put on hold until another review group, into agricultural holdings legislation, Annex 2 gives a pretty good idea of the current direction of travel.

All of this provides a bit of a platform for those interested in land reform to pontificate from. This I duly did, on BBC Radio Scotland’s “Newsdrive” on 2 December (available via iPlayer until 30 December – my involvement begins…

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