Parliament Workbench

Petition · PE01800 · Session 5

Expand the remit of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland

Closed Submitted 3 Feb 2020 Housing & Planning
Signatures
0
121 online signatures with a country
Comments
7
Considered
1 meeting
in the Official Report

What it asks

Calling on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to expand the remit of the Lands Tribunal for Scotland to include the consideration of planning decisions, which are currently called-in by Scottish Ministers.

What the petitioner did first

We have previously raised this issue with our MSP, Angus MacDonald, who advised us to lodge this petition.

Where it was considered

Official Report
  1. 3 Sep 2020
    Public Petitions Committee
    New Petitions
    1 mention

Signatures by country

121 online signatures
  1. Scotland101 83.5%
  2. United Kingdom20 16.5%

Comments

7 comments, oldest first
  1. Dorothy Oliver 4 Mar 2020
    Another slap in the face for Bo'ness.
  2. Jacqueline harrison 4 Mar 2020
    Shame we can't over turn the ineos decision considering the msp represented Aberdeen who had the casting vote
  3. CHARLES ARCHIBALD 5 Mar 2020
    Having seen the closure of the A904 between Grangemouth
    - Bo'ness after an appeal was launched by Ineos after the Falkirk Council elected to keep the road open
  4. Jenny gilmour 6 Mar 2020
    If there was a major accident or fatalities on the only other road into Bo'ness the town would be cut off as no public transport would be able to run x
  5. Pete Preston 7 Mar 2020
    Keep it open
  6. Anatoliusz Ivanov 25 Mar 2020
    I used to work for BP Chemicals from the 1970's when it was a very much larger operation. BP would have liked the road closed back then but they accepted the fact that the road was there prior to them and that took precedence. There was no great inconvenience back then, no hold up for traffic. Any concerns about public safety should not be used in any discussions as unlike decades ago there is far less risk of any public danger. In the past there was far more hazardous chemicals that there is today and today's safety standards are far higher than they used to be. The only reason for Ineos wanting closure of this road is that they can reduce manpower at the gates.
  7. Phyllis Warner 1 Apr 2020
    Leave it open