Current status: Answered by Ash Regan on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to reform the land-owning land maintenance company model of estate management.
The Scottish Government currently has no plans to legislate on the model adopted by land-owning land maintenance companies.
We are however, currently working on a non-statutory voluntary Code of Practice in relation to the dismissal and replacement of land-owning land maintenance companies. The Code would introduce guidance on the minimum standards expected from any land-owning land maintenance company following a request from homeowners formally requesting to dismiss and replace them. This would include information that such companies should provide to homeowners, following the transfer of the ownership of the land, and future arrangements for maintaining the land.