Land
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
Understanding Urban Community Landownership
Author / Creator: Carey Doyle
Media type: Blog
Date published: 2024
The Scottish model of community land ownership was developed in rural areas, but is applicable to urban siturations too.
Land Reform (Scotland) Bill
Author / Creator: Malcolm Combe
Media type: Article
Date published: 2025
Existing community rights to buy and their general non-appearance in the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill
Scotland’s land reform journey is stalling
Author / Creator: Josh Doble
Media type: Blog
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.