TFF body set up to review rent practices

THE Tenant Farming Forum (TFF), which comprises of representatives from all the major organisations involved in the tenanted sector of Scottish landholding, yesterday announced the establishment of an independent body – the rent review working group – to try and unravel the tangle that exists in rent review procedures in Scotland.

Under the chairmanship of former banker Henry Graham, the four members of the group have been appointed on a personal basis and not on any organisational affiliation.

The group has been tasked with looking at how 1991 act rent reviews are conducted in Scotland and then comparing those with possible alternatives.

Phil Thomas, TFF chairman, said the four-strong group – with Graham joined by former NFU Scotland president John Ross, Perthshire farmer, Ian Duncan Millar, and John Mitchell, a partner in lawyers Anderson Strathern – would report back to his committee by November this year.

The report from the group will also be considered by the Scottish Government.