Land
Back to Life: Mapping Scotland’s Alternative to Grouse Moors
Author / Creator: Lateral North
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: December 2018
An illustrative map – based on real Scottish geographic data – showing what a reformed former grouse moor could look like.
Back to Life: Visions for Alternative Futures for Scotland’s Grouse Moors
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published:
Of all the possible uses of this land, grouse shooting is not only the least moral, it is by far the least economically effective. In fact, almost any other use will create more value and more jobs per hectare.
Land Reform: Re-Shaping Scotland’s Social Landscape
Author / Creator: Dylan Howel
Media type: News Item
Date published:
Scotland has one of the most concentrated patterns of private land ownership in the developed world. Just 450 people own over half of the private land in Scotland. This entitlement has survived un-challenged for 500 years, a privilege that has its roots in royal favours and aristocratic archetypes
Public Land Value Capture: A new model for housing development in Scotland
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: Feburary 2018
This report outlines the case for public land value capture. A process by which councils, not those selling land, can benefit from the increase in land value due to changing use. It can reduce house prices by not passing that uplifted cost on to renters and buyers of the houses built on such land.
Better than This
Author / Creator: Common Weal
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: 2021
We must emerge from the Covid pandemic in a way that
Fixes the problems raised by the crisis.
Fixes the problems evident before the crisis and makes us resilient.
Implements a green new deal.
Establishes a new democracy.
Begins a national care service.
Starts land reform.
Creates a housing revolution.
Controls our own energy.
Provides better banking
Focus on independence.