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First, I will throw a different slant on section 7. The section does not compel anybody to buy anything—no money changes hands, except the compensation that Network Rail will have to pay if it acquires the land for the new roads.
Did you mean that fewer people would be willing to buy and sell land, or did you mean that there would be less investment in the estates by current or new landowners?
I often think that those are the values on which the new Scotland was built. They are values that can unite the political, the religious and the non-religious in our community.