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There seems to be a problem, in that for a number of years the publicly funded housing has been built, barrier free, to a minimum standard of accessibility. New private housing need only meet the visitability standards.
We need to be up to speed with the latest legislation. We have concerns about the implementation of the landfill directive and about conditioning plans.
Current arrangements allow for tenants to transfer with a preserved right to buy. Detailed proposals for a modernised right to buy will be announced in early summer as part of the forthcoming Housing Bill.
Crofting Community Right to Buy (Ballot) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (SSI 2004/227)Community Right to Buy (Ballot) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (SSI 2004/228) Again, the legal briefing recommends that the committee might want to draw the attention of the lead committee and the Parliament to the following points:"(a) ...
We quickly identified for the board that the big challenge would be the demographic change in the population of Dumfries and Galloway: a 26 per cent increase in over-65s, a 26 per cent decrease in those aged 19 and below and an 11 per cent decrease in the working-age population.