Land ownership

Reform Scotland’s Land

Author / Creator: Common Weal

Media type: Video

Date published: 2020

Land reform is a social justice issue. How can democratic decisions about the kind of country we want in the face of a small number of landowners?

 


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