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Right of Notification (PE1143)

Tuesday 4 November 2008 Public Petitions Committee Petitions 3 contributions · 2 speakers

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Frank McAveety Lab The Convener · Glasgow Shettleston
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PE1143, from Carol Ann Bowmaker, calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Government to amend all relevant legislation to ensure that private tenants have a right to be notified when their landlord has applied for planning permission to demolish their home and that planning permission is not granted and notices to quit are not issued to a tenant when outstanding repairing standard enforcement notices exist on the property.I thought that we had already discussed the petition, but it was a similar one. That is my fault—I am getting too old. Do members have any comments or observations to make? It seems to me that the legislation exists to deal with these matters. I recommend that we close the petition on the grounds that measures to prevent landlords from ending tenancies were considered in the Parliament in 2006 and were rejected and that there are procedures for enforcing repairing standard enforcement notices.

Nigel Don SNP North East Scotland
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What the lady is asking for is too restrictive all round—everybody can see that. The solution that she is calling for is inappropriate, although I understand where she is coming from.

Frank McAveety Lab The Convener · Glasgow Shettleston
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Okay. Do we agree to close the petition on those grounds?Members indicated agreement.

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