{"id":9097,"date":"2014-12-05T17:31:54","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T17:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=9097"},"modified":"2014-12-05T17:31:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T17:31:54","slug":"scottish-land-reform-consultation-targets-development-barriers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9097","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Land Reform consultation targets development \u2018barriers\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced proposals to \u2018clamp-down\u2019 on landowners who pose a \u2018barrier\u2019 to development as part of land reform in a consultation that closes on 5 February 2015<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>She also said business rate exemptions for shooting and deerstalking estates would be scrapped as part of a series of \u2018radical\u2019 land reforms.<\/p>\n<p>Sturgeon highlighted plans for a Land Reform Bill as she outlined her administration\u2019s priorities and latest legislative programme.<\/p>\n<p>This measure would give ministers power to intervene \u2018where the scale of land ownership or the conduct of a landlord is acting as a barrier to sustainable development\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotland.gov.uk\/Publications\/2014\/12\/9659\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Gov summary<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/consult.scotland.gov.uk\/land-reform-and-tenancy-unit\/land-reform-scotland\" target=\"_blank\">Consultation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theplanner.co.uk\/news\/land-reform-bill-in-the-frame\" target=\"_blank\">The Planner article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/environment\/scots-land-reform-consultation-begins-1-3622765\" target=\"_blank\">The Scotsman consultation article\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/news\/environment\/nicola-sturgeon-to-crack-down-on-major-landowners-1-3616729\" target=\"_blank\">article on Nicola Sturgeon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planningportal.gov.uk\/general\/news\/stories\/2014\/december14\/041214\/041214_6\" target=\"_blank\">Search Planning Portal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced proposals to \u2018clamp-down\u2019 on landowners who pose a \u2018barrier\u2019 to development as part of land reform in a consultation that closes on 5 February 2015. She also said business rate exemptions for shooting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=9097\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9098,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9097\/revisions\/9098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}