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It seems to me that, if I am promoting a project and want to build a railway line or a bridge or whatever, it remains open to me at any time to go to any landowner and say, "I want to buy this," or, "I want to buy that."
To be honest, if they are going to buy in those shops, they will not want to trudge all the stuff that they can buy there back to Birmingham when they can go to the Bullring and do the same.
We have already begun to do that in other pieces of legislation dealing with access to land, the community right to buy and the Scottish outdoor access code.
We would consider the replies when we get them. The petitioners might want to contact Planning Aid for Scotland. I have been advised to stress again—I think for legal reasons—that the committee recognises that it cannot intervene in the decisions of a democratically elected body such as the council.
I have therefore thought of a simpler system under which, if a landlord were on the register, they would be contactable and, if they did not register, their income would be affected.
During the past few months, my office—like that of my Westminster counterpart—has been contacted by many former deep-sea fishermen who lost their livelihoods during the changes to the fishing boundaries around Iceland.