Green Southside Councillor Steve Burgess has a question tabled on Edinburgh`s common Good at tomorrows meeting of the Council

http://cpol.edinburgh.gov.uk/getdoc_ext.asp?DocId=103399

 The Local Authorities in Scotland Accounts Advisory Committee (LASAAC) have published a consultation paper on Guidance to improve the accounting arrangements for Common Good Funds. See link below for more details and Andy Wightman`s and Selkirk Community Councils formal response to the LASAAC consultation. Both available for download at

http://www.andywightman.com/commonweal/cgl_progress.html

Introduction In Session 1 of the Scottish Parliament there were a number of significant Acts passed relating to land reform including the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000, the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 and the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003. Session 2 of Parliament saw a number of these Statutes coming into force but no further land reform legislation. Session 3 provides the opportunity to both review the effectiveness of this first tranche of legislation and to begin the process of taking

Letter in Evening News Fri 24 Aug 07

For 35 generations (some 700 years) the residents of every burgh have been the owners of valuable assets which are the ongoing responsibility to administer by successive elected councillors, Scotland-wide.

This petition closed in April 2007  and has gone before the public petition`s committee on the 23rd October 2007

The Committee agreed to seek responses to the petition from COSLA, Scottish Government and the Local Authority Scotland Accounts Advisory Committee. 

http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/petitions/docs/PE1050.htm

Link to petition

Link to all archived evidence and papers from sessions

Official Report