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	<title>Land Matters</title>
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	<description>Occasional thoughts and comments on land issues and other stuff by Andy Wightman</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Poor had no Lawyers II</title>
		<link>http://www.andywightman.com/wordpress/?p=79</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Who Owns Scotland]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Land Reform]]></category>

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The Poor Had No Lawyers provides a fascinating and in depth account of how Scotland&#8217;s vast commons were converted into private ownership through a variety of legal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One of the biggest land grabs in history</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, today&#8217;s the day.
Exactly 450 years ago the Scots nobility sat down in Parliament in Edinburgh and passed a series of acts which neutered the power of the Catholic church and ushered in the Reformation. Two years ago I visited Wittenberg in Germany and spent some time in the Luther museum there. My visit convinced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Machrihanish II</title>
		<link>http://www.andywightman.com/wordpress/?p=78</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Land Reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having had time to digest the recent decision to refuse the right to buy to the Machrihanish Airbase Community Company (see post of 13th August) I am astounded at both the decision and the implications. It has become very evident that over the course of the past 6 years, applications to register an interest in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Poor had no Lawyers I</title>
		<link>http://www.andywightman.com/wordpress/?p=76</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Land Rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Who Owns Scotland]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Land Reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am now in the final stages of editing and proof reading of my next book to be published by Birlinn in October. Titled &#8216;The Poor had no Lawyers. Who owns Scotland (and how they got it)&#8217;, it seeks to analyse how the millions of acres of Scotland&#8217;s common lands disappeared into private ownership. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closing down the debate</title>
		<link>http://www.andywightman.com/wordpress/?p=75</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always though of Scotland as a pretty conservative country. Its institutions and its culture do not seem receptive or open to radical ideas. Individuals of course are a different matter and there are hundreds of them with wonderful ideas trying to make a change. But where are the channels that can turn their ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Machrihanish I</title>
		<link>http://www.andywightman.com/wordpress/?p=74</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 08:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Land Reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Scottish Ministers gave notice on Wednesday 11 August of their refusal to consent to the application by the Machrihanish Airbase Community Company to acquire the redundant Machrihanish airbase in Argyll. In a long and detailed Refusal Notice, Ministers explain their grounds for refusal. I make no comment on whether this decision is right or wrong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crown Estate Rothesay case</title>
		<link>http://www.andywightman.com/wordpress/?p=73</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Crown Estate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Court of Session has today published the Opinion in the case of the Crown Estate Commissioners seeking declarator that they have authority to impose charges for the rent of the seabed. This was opposed by those who claimed that the Royal Charter of the Burgh of Rothesay provided that the inhabitants of the town [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taste of Edinburgh hijack a public park</title>
		<link>http://www.andywightman.com/wordpress/?p=72</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 17:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edinburgh]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Latest news on access situation in Inverleith Park
The Park Rules for Glasgow and Dundee make it explicit that any event charging money needs a Section 11 order.
The Edinburgh Access Forum noted in 2006 that the existing park rules conflicted with access legislation on 10 points.
Four years later, nothing has been done to remedy the situation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Access to Inverleith Park</title>
		<link>http://www.andywightman.com/wordpress/?p=71</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 16:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edinburgh]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Land Rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Further news about the access situation at the Taste of Edinburgh event in Inverleith Park at Guardian blog posted at 1552 hours today.
Since then I have had a further response from the Council claiming that access rights are exempted under Section 6(d) of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. This is getting  bit desparate. Section [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taste of Edinburgh</title>
		<link>http://www.andywightman.com/wordpress/?p=70</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 11:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edinburgh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Edinburgh Council has now replied to me declining to uphold my access rights. They don&#8217;t deny I have them though. I&#8217;ve written back asking them to take action under Section 14 of the legislation (the bit about removing obstructions)
Meanwhile, follow the Guardian blog for further details. I will post the whole story once the event [...]]]></description>
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