CONSTRUCTION work is underway on a £1.6million housing, health and economic project in Skye. The eagerly-awaited site start in Stenscholl, Staffin by island-based James MacQueen… Read More »Construction of Skye community’s housing, health and business development starts
On Wednesday 12 August, Wanlockhead, Scotland’s highest village, voted to approve the purchase of 3,863 acres of land from the Buccleuch Group, in one of… Read More »Scotland’s Highest Village Votes for Community Land Buyout from Buccleuch
In his new book, Riders on the Storm: Climate Change and the Survival of Being, the Isle of Lewis raised author, Alastair McIntosh, sums up… Read More »Alastair McIntosh blog on Riders on the Storm
Community Land Scotland has written to the Just Transition Commission to reiterate our view that land reform must be an essential component of Scotland’s green… Read More »Advice to Ministers on a Green Recovery from the Covid-19 Pandemic
As Scotland marks the Centenary of the Land Settlement Act, the Scottish Land Commission has said that more reform to land ownership and land use… Read More »Scottish Land Commission publishes Repeopling Empty Places
The Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust have announced they are launching a Community Fund to benefit the residents of Gigha and help support a thriving… Read More »Gigha launches Community Fund
In October 2019, Community Land Scotland took part in the 2019 meeting of the International Land Coalition (ILC) Europe, Middle East and North Africa (EMENA)… Read More »Community Land Scotland is a co-signatory to the Torrecuso Declaration
Community Land Scotland has welcomed the opportunity for communities to express their views on the sale of Langholm Moor. The consultation process, which is looking… Read More »Community Land Scotland welcomes Langholm Moor opportunity
There is a pressing need to accelerate the pace of Scotland’s land reform journey to unlock the potential of communities to take control of their… Read More »Land reform needs to accelerate “as a matter of social justice” says Community Land Scotland
Information about this year’s Community Land Week’s events can be found here. This year’s Community Land Week – Scotland’s national celebration of community landowners –… Read More »Woodlands, mills and housing on the programme for this year’s Community Land Week: 10th to 18th August 2019
It is an affront to Scotland in the 21st century that the owners of large estates can still have their tenants living in fear of… Read More »Monopoly exercise of landowner power is an affront to a modern, democratic and socially progressive Scotland, says Community Land Scotland.
A new Rural Repopulation and Renewal Working Group has been formed to explore ways to encourage more people to live and work in rural parts of Scotland.
