
Beyond community benefit – a new deal for thriving communities
This paper proposes a transformational system of new community partnership agreements to ensure community priorities are included from the earliest stage of new economic developments.

This paper proposes a transformational system of new community partnership agreements to ensure community priorities are included from the earliest stage of new economic developments.

Research on experiences of people from ethnic minority backgrounds in community ownership of buildings and land.

Following a detailed and lengthy process, an independent panel has recommended that the original decision to refuse the asset transfer be overturned, subject to a number of conditions, and Scottish Government ministers have accepted this recommendation.

John Watt reflects on his long career working in Scottish community development and land reform, the progress that has been made and the challenges that remain.