Land

#Route2050 On Track for Rural Scotland

Author / Creator: Scottish Land and Estates

Media type: Report

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Food production, climate change and biodiversity ‘vital’ in Scotland’s future agricultural support regime


Taxing Land In Scotland

Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell

Media type: Article

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A proposal for a Local Authority controlled Land Tax with projected revenue for each Local Authority in Scotland


Scotland needs a radical grassroots movement for land justice again

Author / Creator: Heather Urquhart

Media type: Article

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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.


The Land of Scotland and the Common Good - The Land Reform Review Group 10 Years Later

Author / Creator: Andy Wightman

Media type: Article

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Ten years ago today, the Land Reform Review Group (LRRG) published its Final Report.


Own Yersel Scotland: Reimagining the future – Keynote Address by Michael Russell

Author / Creator: Michael Russell

Media type: Article

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Reflections on land reform and a vision for the future


Land Reform for a Democratic, Sustainable and Just Scotland

Author / Creator: Laurie Macfarlane

Media type: Book

Date published: 2023

The ownership, governance and use of land in Scotland remains stuck in the past.


Land Reform for a Democratic, Sustainable and Just Scotland

Author / Creator: Laurie Macfarlane

Media type: Report

Date published: 2023

Ahead of the Land Reform Bill, this report sets out a bold agenda for land reform.


Understanding Urban Community Landownership

Author / Creator: Carey Doyle

Date published: 2024

Scotland has a long history of community landownership.  We are celebrating 100 years since the first buyout


Scotland’s land reform journey is stalling

Author / Creator: Josh Doble

Media type: Article

Date published: 2023

Scotland’s experience of land reform is often described as a journey, if that is the case then our journey is stalling and all but ground to a halt.


Rural Land Sales 2020-2022

Author / Creator: Andy Wightman

Media type: Report

Date published: 2024

Record of large land sales for the period 2020-22


The Poor Had No Lawyers: Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it

Author / Creator: Andy Wightman

Media type: Book

Date published: 2015

the untold story of how Scotland's legal establishment and politicians managed to appropriate land through legal fixes.


Slipping Slopes; The Common Weal Policy Podcast – Episode #190

Author / Creator: Nick Kempe

Media type: Podcast

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Nick Kempe talks about the problem Scotland faces with frequent landslips and how they have been exacerbated by Government policy and by the lack of land reform in the country.


Community Land Scotland statement on the Land Reform Bill 2023

Author / Creator: Community Land Scotland

Media type: consultation response

Date published: 2023

Changes needed to Land Reform Bill 2023


Land Jjustice Bill – Consultation Response

Author / Creator: Community Land Scotland

Media type: consultation response

Date published: 2024

Proposals to limit the amount of land that can be owned by a person outside of public interest.


Forest Ownership in Scotland: Policy Review

Author / Creator: Jon Hollingdale

Media type: Report

Date published: 2023

Forestry ownership is intimately related to the multi-faceted requirements of land reform.


Proposed Land Ownership and Public Interest (Scotland) Bill

Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell

Media type: consultation response

Date published: 2023

These proposals seek to change the way that Scotland buys, sells, transfers and holds land


Land Reform for the Common Good

Author / Creator: Calum MacLeod

Media type: Discussion Paper

Date published: 2023

The current form of land ownership does not promote the common good.


Creag Ghuanach

Author / Creator: Gemma Smith

Media type: Article

Date published: 2023

One in a series of explorations of Gaelic place names


On Crofting, Landlordism, Rewilding and Depopulation

Author / Creator: Alison Strange

Media type: Article

Date published: 2023

"Rewilding, Carbon Credits and Nature-based Solutions have become clickbait to grab the public’s imagination with an idyllic, sunlit, sylvan landscape teeming with wildflowers and butterflies, offering boundless opportunities for the reintroduction of long-lost species." 


Work the Land: The Employment Potential of Land Reform

Author / Creator: Robin McAlpine

Date published: 2021

This paper argues against claims that land reform would harm rural employment and seeks to illustrate the kind of jobs that could be created instead and the positive impact radical land reform would have on employment and on wages in rural areas