Community Land Scotland Explained

Community Land Scotland is a charity and membership organisation for community landowners and aspiring community landowners. It was founded in 2010 to represent the interests of community landowners, promote legislation which empowers communities and provide a point of contact for community bodies interested in community land ownership.

Its members are estimated to own approximately 560,000 acres of land in the country.^[1]

Objectives

Community Land Scotland states its main objectives as follows:^[2]

• Facilitate the exchange of information, enabling groups to learn from each other's experience and successes
• Promote the growing importance of the community landowning sector to Scotland
• Reform The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 to simplify and strengthen powers to communities
• Encourage community groups to register an interest in land
• Work with communities to ease the process of communities taking ownership of public land

See also

• Land Reform in Scotland

Notes and References

1. Web site: Community Land Scotland.
2. Web site: What we do. Community Land Scotland. 6 March 2017.