PRESS RELEASE from COMMUNITY LAND SCOTLAND 29th September 2020 Call for University of the Highlands and Islands applied music students to compose for community land owners Music for a Movement. Music students at the University of the Highlands and Islands, will shortly be set an unusual piece of course work – to compose a piece… Read more »
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Call for proposals for Community Landownership and the Climate Emergency
Community Land Scotland is seeking proposals for this project. The full document can be found here. Project Outputs Project outputs will include the following: • A report containing a contextualised analysis of baseline data and an assessment of benefits as detailed above; • A separate set of narrative case-studies as detailed above; • An innovative… Read more »
‘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. Land Reform Secretary Roseanna Cunningham said: “Communities across the country, whilst impacted in so many ways… Read more »
We are seeking a website developer
Community Land Scotland is seeking a provider to develop a website for an innovative new project, the Urban Community Land Hub, operating across the Clyde Valley area. The aim of the Urban Community Land Hub would be to: i) Open up opportunities for communities to own more land in areas with complex land markets and… Read more »
We are recruiting in the South of Scotland
Community Land Scotland is recruiting for a South of Scotland Development Officer. Job title: South of Scotland Development Officer Hours: 22.5 hours per week Salary: £28,600 pro rata (0.6 fte) Contract length: Six months. The role can be offered on an employed or contract basis. Location: we are looking for a homeworker based in the… Read more »
Construction of Skye community’s housing, health and business development starts
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 Builders comes 21 years after the last affordable housing development opened in the north-east Skye community. Six three-bedroom homes, a health centre and two business premises will be built in… Read more »
Scotland’s Highest Village Votes for Community Land Buyout from Buccleuch
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 southern Scotland’s largest ever proposed community land buyouts. 55.6 percent of voters were in favour of the buyout and 44.4 percent of voters were against it. 69 ballots were cast… Read more »
Advice to Ministers on a Green Recovery from the Covid-19 Pandemic
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 economic recovery. How our land and other natural assets, such as forests, renewable energy and marine resources are owned and used is critical to a fair and green future for our… Read more »
Built-in Resilience: New Report Highlights Community Landowners’ Responses to the Covid-19 Crisis
Community bodies across the land have earned the right to become one of the building blocks on which Scotland’s recovery from the pandemic is founded. It was they who had to make the Scottish Government’s ‘stay at home’ instruction work on the ground. It was they who ensured the most vulnerable could be: protected;… Read more »
We are seeking an Interim Urban Land Hub Manager
We are seeking an Interim Manager to help us get a pilot Urban Community Land Hub up and running in the Clyde Valley. The post lasts until the end of December and the closing date for applications is the 22nd June. Job description and person specification Application form
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