Land
Real Land Reform for our People, wildlife and environment
Author / Creator: Revive
Media type: Manifesto
Date published: 2026
This manifesto sets out how real land reform can be delivered.
Country of Origin Report 2024
Author / Creator: Registers of Scotland
Media type: Report
Date published: 2026
408 landowners own half of all privately-owned rural land in Scotland
The Living Mountain
Author / Creator: Nan Shepherd
Media type: Book
Date published: 2011
A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
Regional Land Use Partnership LAND+Handbook
Author / Creator: Rachel Skene
Media type: Report
Date published: 2025
A community-led approach to collaboration, for the benefit of people and place.
Scotland’s land reform : time to reverse the trend
Author / Creator: Josh Doble
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2025
Land reform is the pathway to building true people power.
Community benefits from natural capital investment; Route map
Author / Creator: Scottish Land Commission
Media type: Guide
Date published: 2025
This Route Map has been created as a guide for how to discuss and embed proportionate community benefits in natural capital projects, ideally from the outset.
Diversity and Inclusion within Community Ownership
Author / Creator: Community Enterprise
Media type: Research Report
Date published: 2024
Community ownership of assets has a deep-rooted and long-standing tradition, but has not yet fully addressed the needs of marginalised and disadvantaged groups.
Toward Inclusive Ownership - Adressing Systemic Barriers for Urban Communities in Scotland
Author / Creator: Gavin Cowan
Media type: Report
Date published: 2025
Significant obstacles such as delays in community ownership processes and mismanagement within Glasgow City Council’s community asset transfer system continue to exist.
Scottish Land Fund
Author / Creator: Scottish Land Fund
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
In 25 years the SLF has funded 450+ community buy outs.
Taxing Land in Scotland
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2024
A proposal for a Local Authority controlled Land Tax
Land reform impact will be felt by all of Scotland
Author / Creator: Ariane Burgess
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
Scotland has a population of 5.5 million, but half of our country is owned by just over 400 people.
Land reform in Scotland: where has it gone wrong?
Author / Creator: Douglas MacMillan
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
Inequalities in terms of wealth and land ownership remain the worst in Western Europe.
Reform of Crofting proposed
Author / Creator: Kelly Henaughen
Media type: Newspaper article
Date published:
A review of the legal status of crofts is proposed, partly to ease the transfer of crofts within a family.
The land of Scotland and the common good: report
Author / Creator: Land Reform Review Group
Media type: Report
Date published: 2014
Land is considered a common good in this report.
The Land Reform Review Group 10 Years Later
Author / Creator: Andy Wightman
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2024
What's happened since the reoport of he Land Reform Review Group report? Not much.
Global learnings for land reform in Scotland: Towards more radical solutions
Author / Creator: Fraser Sugden
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2024
Scotland has long been one of the most unequal countries in the world in terms of land ownership
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: 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