Community Land Scotland Manifesto for People, Place and Power

2025-2026

We are excited to announce the launch of our manifesto for the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections, People, Place & Power.

The 2026 Scottish Parliamentary election comes at a crucial moment. Scotland is facing multiple and overlapping crises: housing shortages and depopulation, climate breakdown, biodiversity loss, a cost-of-living emergency, deepening inequality and rising political disillusionment increasingly threaten the fabric of our society. Doing more of the same will not deliver change at the speed or scale that we need.

This election is a chance to take bold steps to address these issues. The best answers and solutions often come from communities themselves. With revitalised democracy rooted in communities, people can have real ownership of land and resources. They can build affordable homes, generate clean energy, restore nature and support thriving local economies. Strengthening community ownership and control is not just a fair approach; it is the key to putting Scotland’s future in the hands of its people and ensuring a more equitable and sustainable future.

Our manifesto sets out a bold and ambitious land reform agenda to diversify who owns and therefore controls land, which is essential to creating a fairer and more resilient Scotland. The Scottish Land Commission’s recently published ScotLand Futures report has clearly highlighted that not only is there a need for land reform, but that there is public appetite for it with over 96% saying Scotland needs change. Land reform is the bedrock of our manifesto and will be essential in delivering the transformation action needed across Scotland’s most pressing challenges to achieve our identified four key outcomes of:

Together these outcomes set out a bold and deliverable agenda for a fairer, more sustainable Scotland. Over the course of next week, we will be highlighting our key asks which will be essential to ensuring that communities across Scotland have the tools, resources, and rights they need to flourish.

We look forward to conversations over the coming months and to working with partners, communities, policymakers and politicians to ensure land reform and community ownership remain on the agenda and to unlock a more equitable and sustainable future for Scotland’s communities.

Read our full manifesto below to learn more about our vision for addressing Scotland’s most urgent challenges through transformational change.

For more information or to discuss, please contact: