Few 19-year olds can claim to be on the board of an organisation with multi-million pound assets. But one who can is Brandon Clements. He has just become a director of the Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust (IGHT), the community-led body which completed the historic buyout of the island in 2002. Now back working… Read more »
Helmsdale and District Development Trust (HDDT) is looking to recruit two people for its Kitchen Garden project in Helmsdale, Sutherland. The first role is Head Gardener and the second is Project Officer.
The Scottish Government Community Land Team are holding a pilot series of free events in 2019. The events will give an overview of the various types of community rights to buy that communities can use, practical advice on how to become a compliant body and the application processes. The proposed roadshow locations are noted below… Read more »
The 21st of June 2018 was a historical date for the Isle of Ulva, a small island on the West Coast of Scotland. Ulva was the subject of a successful community buy-out after the private owner placed the island on the market. The community of Ulva, represented by North West Mull Community Woodland Company Ltd… Read more »
Community Land Scotland is seeking a consultant to produce a feasibility study on the setting up of a pilot Community Land Hub that would support communities and open up access to land at a city-wide or regional level The Call for Bids can be found here: https://bit.ly/2QRnyWT The closing date is 26th October 2018
Major new research into Scottish landscape conservation policies has found that communities are being excluded from participating in development decisions that affect the areas they live in. This ‘participation deficit’ is in part because of long-standing ‘fence and exclude’ conservation models, which single out ‘special’ landscapes for protection. And the report’s author has called for… Read more »
Mull and Iona Community Trust, working with Ulva School Community Association, has secured a grant of £156,865.51 from the Scottish Land Fund to realise a second affordable housing project at Ulva Ferry on the Isle of Mull. MICT and USCA successfully delivered two affordable houses at Ulva Ferry in 2017, increasing the number of children… Read more »
New research has shown a striking growth in the number of young people either returning to live in Uist or moving there for the first time. Most of the islands of Eriskay, South Uist and Benbecula have been in community ownership for eleven years during which time the number of births has gone up by… Read more »
Community Land Scotland (CLS) has today published ‘Towards Land Ownership Transparency in Scotland’, part of a larger study led by Transparency International to test a framework for assessing land ownership transparency within countries. The framework was presented at ‘Land Governance in an Interconnected World’, the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty in… Read more »
Last week, the Scottish Land Commission publish a discussion paper by Peter Peacock that is full of radical ideas for potential action in tacking Scotland’s land ownership question. Community Land Scotland congratulates the Scottish Land Commission in opening up controversial territory for discussion on Scotland’s land and asking the question of whether land is for… Read more »
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