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To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the potential impact on the buy to let market of the National Registration Scheme for Private Landlords.
I recollect that the original definitions that we proposed in the consultation paper aroused considerable criticism. The new definition has been developed by the clerks and the legal office to try to address some of the issues raised by the commercial lobbyists that responded to the consultation.Paragraph 26 mentions...
The quote is very brief, but it encapsulates the whole issue. Paragraph 5.11 on page 26 says:"There is a clear perception among planning officers that prior notification is unnecessary in principle and unsatisfactory in practice."
It was the committee's aim, in going to Aberdeen and Perth, to meet in areas that parliamentary committees had not hitherto visited. That was why we considered places other than Dumfries.