Andy Wightman

Housing and homelessness, Society

Scots landlords served hundreds of eviction notices during lockdown

Niall Christie on August 9, 2020August 13, 2020

Hundreds of tenants in Scotland have been handed eviction notices since the beginning of lockdown, despite government advice for landlords to be flexible during the pandemic.

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Finance, Housing and homelessness

Tenants ‘sidelined’ as landlords lobby for extra Covid-19 subsidy

Ally Tibbitt on July 28, 2020August 2, 2020

Landlord lobbyists have pressured Scottish Government officials for further coronavirus subsidies in regular meetings with civil servants, documents show.

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Crime and justice, Housing and homelessness

Police urged to tackle landlords breaking lockdown laws

Caitlin Logan on July 26, 2020August 13, 2020

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.

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Housing and homelessness, Society

Legal overhaul urged to tackle Scotland’s derelict land and buildings

Jamie Mann on July 15, 2020July 19, 2020

Experts have called for “radical change” and an overhaul of Scotland’s laws to tackle thousands of vacant and derelict sites.

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Environment, Society

Scottish Land Fund spent millions on publicly owned buildings

Richard Baynes on July 12, 2020July 14, 2020

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.

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Finance

Charlotte Square to Quartermile: Scotland’s tax haven district

Jamie Mann, Ally Tibbitt on June 25, 2020June 29, 2020

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.

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Politics

Loopholes let MSPs declare ‘arbitrary’ share values

Joe Lo on May 25, 2020May 27, 2020

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

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Human rights, Politics

Relief as opposition parties move to restore information rights

James McEnaney, Rob Edwards on May 15, 2020May 17, 2020

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.

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Housing and homelessness, Society

Covid-19 planning laws ‘captured’ by property developers

Ally Tibbitt on May 1, 2020May 4, 2020

Rule changes during the Covid-19 pandemic favour property developers and risk shutting the public out from the planning system, say Scottish civic groups.

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Andy Wightman

Housing and homelessness, Society

Scots landlords served hundreds of eviction notices during lockdown

Finance, Housing and homelessness

Tenants ‘sidelined’ as landlords lobby for extra Covid-19 subsidy

Crime and justice, Housing and homelessness

Police urged to tackle landlords breaking lockdown laws

Housing and homelessness, Society

Legal overhaul urged to tackle Scotland’s derelict land and buildings

Environment, Society

Scottish Land Fund spent millions on publicly owned buildings

Finance

Charlotte Square to Quartermile: Scotland’s tax haven district

Politics

Loopholes let MSPs declare ‘arbitrary’ share values

Human rights, Politics

Relief as opposition parties move to restore information rights

Housing and homelessness, Society

Covid-19 planning laws ‘captured’ by property developers

Sub Club director’s family sold vacant site to hotel developer

Salmon farm rapped for toxic pesticide breaches

Adoption charities taking over Kinship carer service is ‘slap in the face’

Twenty children killed in Yemen since UK resumed selling bombs to Saudi Arabia