Small landholdings modernisation: consultation analysis

This report outlines the results of a consultation held from October 2022 to January 2023. The consultation aimed to gather views on proposals to modernise and update small landholdings legislation.


Footnotes

1 Results from the Scottish Agricultural Census: June 2021 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

2 A coding framework is a set of codes (or descriptive labels) organised into categories that are used to manage and organise data. This creates a new structure for the data (rather than the full original accounts given by participants) and is helpful to summarise data for analysis.

3 In general, percentages have been rounded to the nearest whole number. The figure for each question gives a base number to indicate the number of responses.

4 Agricultural holdings legislation - Agricultural holdings and tenant farming guide

5 There was some misunderstanding about this question, with several respondents stating that allowing a landlord to object would only be appropriate if they still own the land.

6 Age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.

7 Note: Question 5.W stated ‘Please note these could be households with low incomes or few resources; families struggling to make ends meet; people who experienced poverty while growing up; or areas with few resources or opportunities compared with others.’ This was included as a question as an error and no further relevant responses were given.

Contact

Email: SmallLandholdingsConsultation@gov.scot

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