Land
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
REMEMBERING THE TUATH
Author / Creator: Col Gordon
Media type: Article
Date published: 2023
Ways that a "renewed application of [traditional ecological knowledge] and methods can help transition to sustainable, locally-appropriate forms of agriculture in the post fossil-fuel era."
How do we care for Scotland’s mountain footpath network?
Author / Creator: Charlie McCarthy
Media type: Article
Date published: 2022
"The options available to keep Scotland’s popular footpaths well maintained for local walkers and tourists alike."
Fire Threats in the Scottish Countryside
Author / Creator: Martin Murphy
Media type: Article
Date published: 2021
In Scotland the incidences of wildfires have been accelerating at a considerable rate - quadrupling in a year.
Land Reform In A Net Zero Nation
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: consultation response
Date published: 2022
Scotland has both a long history of inequality in land ownership and of a failure to correct this inequality.
Wildlife Management In Scotland Consultation
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: consultation response
Date published: 2022
This consultation deals only with the licencing and regulation of grouse shooting.
Grouse Moor Management Group: report
Author / Creator: Alan Werritty
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Greater regulation of grouse shooting is required.
Regional Land Use Partnerships: Phase 1 Process Evaluation Final Report
Author / Creator: Brady Stevens
Media type: Report
Date published: 2022
Regional Land Use Partnerships is a policy mechanism which is seen by many stakeholders as necessary.
Small landholdings modernisation: consultation
Author / Creator: Scottish Government
Media type: Consultation paper
Date published: 2022
Views on proposals relating to the modernisation of small landholdings
Charles: King of the Landlords
Author / Creator: George Kerevan
Media type: Opinion
Date published: 2022
The Windsors are about land and land is about political control.
Land Reform In A Net Zero Nation
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2022
Scotland cannot afford for this latest round of land reform to fail, as at least two previous attempts.
Who Owns Scotland
Author / Creator: Andy Wightman
Media type: Website
Date published: 2022 -
Who Owns Scotland is a project designed to provide information about who owns land in Scotland.
RE-MEMBERING THE TUATH
Author / Creator: Col Gordon
Media type: Discussion Paper
Date published: 2022
Forms of traditional ecological knowledge that have been erected since antiquity in Scotland are ripe for re-imagining. Col Gordon explores ways in which a renewed application of these methods can help transition to sustainable, locally-appropriate forms of agriculture in the post fossil-fuel era.
Absentee owners buying up Scottish estates in secret sales
Author / Creator: Carroll, Severin
Media type: Newspaper article/Report
Date published:
Absentee owners buying Scottish land; nearly half of sales of Highland estates went to absentee owners in 2021, without the land going on the open market. In increasing cases, the sales were for environmental offsetting. Two thirds of sales in 2021 were carried out privately,
A Scottish Land Commission Report warned that these trends are threatening attempts to diversify Land ownership, improve the rural economy, and increase transparency and accountability.
Land and Property Titles by Country of Origin: Report
Author / Creator: Registers of Scotland
Media type: Report
Date published: 31 December, annually
Land titles with a UK owner address outwith Scotland represent just under a sixth of the country’s land area.