Sunday, November 27, 2005
Fayed Should Shut Up Or Pack Up.
Managers of the Cairngorms National Park announced last week that plans have been made to restrict the sales of new houses within the area to stop property prices rising beyond the reach of local people.
This would mean that anyone buying a home would have to be working in the area, or have a family link there, which is an entirely reasonable idea, given the problems caused by incomers buying houses at prices no one here can afford, often to be used only as holiday homes.
This idea, of course, has enraged the biggest incomer of them all, the Egyptian Mohamed Al-Fayed, owner of Harrods and a 65,000-acre estate in the Highlands. Not that he lives there. He prefers to reside in Switzerland.
There has always been something offensive about absentee landlords in Scotland trying to run local peoples lives - it's a common trait they all seem to have.
If Fayed isn't pleased at what is happening in Scotland, he could always get rid of his 65,000 acre holiday home and fuck off back to Egypt and tell them how to run their country.
Not many would miss him or his fat mouth here.
This would mean that anyone buying a home would have to be working in the area, or have a family link there, which is an entirely reasonable idea, given the problems caused by incomers buying houses at prices no one here can afford, often to be used only as holiday homes.
This idea, of course, has enraged the biggest incomer of them all, the Egyptian Mohamed Al-Fayed, owner of Harrods and a 65,000-acre estate in the Highlands. Not that he lives there. He prefers to reside in Switzerland.
There has always been something offensive about absentee landlords in Scotland trying to run local peoples lives - it's a common trait they all seem to have.
If Fayed isn't pleased at what is happening in Scotland, he could always get rid of his 65,000 acre holiday home and fuck off back to Egypt and tell them how to run their country.
Not many would miss him or his fat mouth here.
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Do you really believe everything you read !!
Mr Al Fayed has never, and is not living in Switzerland.
The whole of Scotland ( not just the Cairngorm National Park) has vast areas of land ( adjacent to settlements and in rural settings )
where restrictive planning laws prevent development. What Mr Al Fayed is saying is , be imaginative, and select areas where there is a need, and develop these for the benefit of the community.
For Example. Land under trees is worth about £200 per acre. If the Council bought this land of a Landowner for £10,000, the Landowner would be thrilled. The council would then have a piece of land that could support 4 new houses at a plot value of £2,500 each ( instead of £70,000 per plot which is the price that local crofters are selling their land to incomers )
Mr Al Fayed has invested in Scotland for the last 34 years, creating business's and employment. Ask the local communities who he has supported what they think of him, and you will get an honest ( chip free ) response.He has done far more for Scotland than most Scots ( I am a Scot )
His plea is for a business approach to problem solving. Sadly most of the current solutions are put forward by people who have never run a business, and have been cushioned within the ever expanding public sector.
It is so easy to rubbish good ideas, when ,in fact, the idea is imaginative , creative and in the best interests of those who need really affordable housing.
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Mr Al Fayed has never, and is not living in Switzerland.
The whole of Scotland ( not just the Cairngorm National Park) has vast areas of land ( adjacent to settlements and in rural settings )
where restrictive planning laws prevent development. What Mr Al Fayed is saying is , be imaginative, and select areas where there is a need, and develop these for the benefit of the community.
For Example. Land under trees is worth about £200 per acre. If the Council bought this land of a Landowner for £10,000, the Landowner would be thrilled. The council would then have a piece of land that could support 4 new houses at a plot value of £2,500 each ( instead of £70,000 per plot which is the price that local crofters are selling their land to incomers )
Mr Al Fayed has invested in Scotland for the last 34 years, creating business's and employment. Ask the local communities who he has supported what they think of him, and you will get an honest ( chip free ) response.He has done far more for Scotland than most Scots ( I am a Scot )
His plea is for a business approach to problem solving. Sadly most of the current solutions are put forward by people who have never run a business, and have been cushioned within the ever expanding public sector.
It is so easy to rubbish good ideas, when ,in fact, the idea is imaginative , creative and in the best interests of those who need really affordable housing.
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