Live Breaking News & Updates on Crofter Housing Grant

Stay updated with breaking news from Crofter housing grant. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

£50,000 island bond is a worthless gimmick — here's a better idea to repopulate rural Scotland


 
£50,000 island bond is a worthless gimmick — here s a better idea to repopulate rural Scotland
PREMIUM
Derelict abandoned croft with disused Dutch barn at Struan on isle of Skye (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images)
A LOT of lives and outlooks changed in the past 18 months and if we are indeed emerging from dark days, it would be as well to look for opportunities rather than wander back into a false assumption of business as usual.
There is no more clear-cut example of why this makes sense than rural housing, because the fall-out is already happening before the eyes of anyone who looks in an estate agent’s window. The more scenic the area, the higher the roof that prices have gone through. ....

United Kingdom , City Of , Kevin Stewart , Isles Council , Scottish Government , Crofting Acts , Crofter Housing Grant , Loan Scheme , Western Isles Council , Housing Minister , ஒன்றுபட்டது கிஂக்டம் , நகரம் ஆஃப் , கெவின் ஸ்டீவர்ட் , தீவுகள் சபை , ஸ்காட்டிஷ் அரசு , கிராஃப்டிங் செயல்கள் , கிராஃப்டர் வீட்டுவசதி மானியம் , கடன் திட்டம் , மேற்கு தீவுகள் சபை , வீட்டுவசதி அமைச்சர் ,

Brian Wilson: Want to revitalise rural Scotland? Here's how to do it


When the pandemic is over, will there be any great reform which stands as a memorial to the privations and loss of life that Scotland will have endured? Perhaps a sustained attack on the disadvantages inflicted by poverty which have been cruelly confirmed through the pandemic? I see no sign.
Maybe an act of penitence for the cuts to local councils over the past decade, out of all proportion to anything suffered by the Scottish Government itself? Little chance for it is easier to clap than to confess or compensate.
So let me be helpful and suggest one policy area entirely within the gift of devolved government where radical action would carry strong historical precedent. Let’s have a Land Settlement (Scotland) (2021) Act to offer thousands of Scottish families a better, healthier quality of life while re-peopling near-deserted swathes of our vast land. ....

United Kingdom , John Swinney , Land Settlement , Scottish Government , First World War , Liberal Ministers , Crofter Housing Grant , Loan Scheme , ஒன்றுபட்டது கிஂக்டம் , ஜான் ஸ்வின்னி , நில தீர்வு , ஸ்காட்டிஷ் அரசு , முதல் உலகம் போர் , தாராளவாத அமைச்சர்கள் , கிராஃப்டர் வீட்டுவசதி மானியம் , கடன் திட்டம் ,