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Meet the Pioneers: Owning Heritage Assets

    6 September 2022 * 11:00 – 12:30

    Every community has buildings or land that are important to its culture and identity but owning and looking after these assets can bring its challenges. Come along to this session and learn about how three communities are bringing three very different heritage assets back to life.

    Green Lairds and Urban Scotland

      Scottish land markets are changing quickly due in part to global demand for low and zero carbon investments.  Investors and the super-rich, the so-called “Green Lairds”, are buying up large landholdings for “rewilding” and other carbon offset projects.

      ‘Our Glen’ bought by the locals

        The Viewpark Conservation Group and its 2,200 members has successfully completed a community buy out of the land which is the Historic Douglas Support Estate in Lanarkshire, fondly known as ‘Our Glen’ by locals, and a treasured green space.