Community Land
Risk, crisis, and urgency: is the private financing of rewilding a threat to community empowerment?
Author / Creator: Caitlin Hafferty
Media type: Article
Date published: 2024
There are potential conflicts between private financing and community empowerment.
Community Right to Buy Review 2024
Author / Creator: Community Land Scotland
Media type: consultation response
Date published: 2024
Community Right to Buy has not been functioning as it should for a number of years.
Land Reform Bill 2024 – Areas for possible amendment
Author / Creator: Community Land Scotland
Media type: Briefing Paper
Date published: 2024
Significant change is required to make this a worthwhile and workable set of land reform proposals.
Land Reform Bill 2024: Public Interest Test vs ‘Transfer Test’
Author / Creator: Community Land Scotland
Media type: Briefing Paper
Date published: 2024
The introduction of a ‘transfer test’ in the draft Bill is a watering down of a meaningful Public Interest Test
Significant landholdings and the criteria for a Public Interest Test and Land Management Plans
Author / Creator: Community Land Scotland
Date published: 2024
The focus on ‘large landholdings’ within the Land Reform Bill will severely restrict the ability of the legislation to impact the scale and concentration of existing ownership
Scotland needs a radical grassroots movement for land justice again
Author / Creator: Heather Urquhart
Media type: Article
Date published:
A look at global struggles, or even our own history, offers a reminder that land justice has never been gifted, it’s been fought for.
Own Yersel Scotland: Reimagining the future – Keynote Address by Michael Russell
Author / Creator: Michael Russell
Media type: Article
Date published:
Reflections on land reform and a vision for the future
Understanding Urban Community Landownership
Author / Creator: Community Land Scotland
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2024
Urban communities are facing additional challenges in their community land buy outs.
Scotland’s land reform journey is stalling
Author / Creator: Josh Doble
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2023
Community ownership of land has flatlined since 2016/2017
Land for the People (Scotland) Bill
Author / Creator: Andy Wightman
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2023
This blog introduces Andy Wightman's proposals for a comprehensive Land Reform Bill
Aberdeen - Scotland’s First Urban Community Hydro
Author / Creator: Community Land Scotland
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Donside Village Community SCIO now owns and manages the land which is home to Scotland’s first urban community hydro scheme.
Bays of Harris Feasibility Study
Author / Creator: Bays of Harris Steering Group
Media type: Feasibility Study
Date published: 2022
The feasibility study of the community by out of the Bays of Harris
Community's Land. John Hutcheson on Community Land Buyouts
Author / Creator: John Hutcheson
Media type: Podcast
Date published:
They discuss the barriers raised against community land buyouts, how a potential Scottish Constitution could grant and protect additional rights such as the Right to Buy and why community ownership isn’t just for rural areas.