Summary
Melanie Reid (November 30) describes the rural second-homes problem with admirable clarity, but strangely omits to identify community ownership and reformed planning law as the way forward.
The bottom line is that there is no land shortage in Scotland. We have vast empty spaces averaging four acres each - that's three football fields per woman, man and child. The problem is that current ownership patterns concentrate land in the hands of those who capitalise from scarcities of their own avaricious creation. This is why it typically costs (pounds) 50,000 for the plot on which to build a (pounds) 30,000 house.See the full content of this document
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A High-Gain but Low-Cost Housing Strategy
Land ownership is only half the problem. Equally of concern is a planning system more appropriate to the overcrow...
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