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Andy Wightman
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Police urged to tackle landlords breaking lockdown laws
Housing and advice charities have warned that more must be done to tackle rogue landlords caught breaking the rules all over Scotland, despite emergency coronavirus laws.
July 26, 2020
Legal overhaul urged to tackle Scotland’s derelict land and buildings
Experts have called for “radical change” and an overhaul of Scotland’s laws to tackle thousands of vacant and derelict sites.
July 15, 2020
Scottish Land Fund spent millions on publicly owned buildings
A fund set up to help community buyouts is heavily skewed towards a few local authority areas and has spent millions on buying assets already in public ownership.
July 12, 2020
Charlotte Square to Quartermile: Scotland’s tax haven district
Tax haven firms are buying up large swathes of the capital, with many of Edinburgh’s most iconic buildings now owned offshore, The Ferret can reveal.
June 25, 2020
Revealed: Scottish property worth billions owned by tax haven firms
Registers of Scotland data shows 3,237 Scottish properties were owned by companies based outside of the UK in 2019.
June 21, 2020
Loopholes let MSPs declare ‘arbitrary’ share values
Critics have called for the rules to be reformed so that MSPs are forced to disclose the true value of their holdings in private companies
May 25, 2020
Relief as opposition parties move to restore information rights
Laws weakening freedom of information rights in Scotland look set to be repealed after just a few weeks because opposition MSPs have united against them.
May 15, 2020
Covid-19 planning laws ‘captured’ by property developers
Rule changes during the Covid-19 pandemic favour property developers and risk shutting the public out from the planning system, say Scottish civic groups.
May 1, 2020
Warning that coronavirus bill could weaken public scrutiny
The Scottish Government’s emergency Covid-19 bill could damage Scotland’s international reputation by relaxing freedom of information rights, the Scottish Information Commissioner has warned.
April 1, 2020