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Scotland’s public land is being sold off to housing developers building luxury homes and sidelining local people, we can reveal.
Several communities told The Ferret they were misled or ignored by housebuilders and public bodies on development plans.
Developers also allegedly breached planning rules without consequence, while councils scrapped local plans – including a healthcare hub for the elderly – to allow for new developments, sometimes on greenbelt land.
Nearly £70 million of land was bought from Scotland’s councils, universities and NHS boards by CALA homes between 2014 and 2019, according to data obtained by The Ferret through freedom of information law. This amounts to 12 per cent of the £500m of public land sold in recent years. ....

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