Community Wealth Building – Delivering Transformation in Scotland’s Local and Regional Economies

This briefing paper has been prepared for MSPs in advance of the Scottish Government debate on ‘Community Wealth Building – Delivering Transformation in Scotland’s Local and Regional Economies’, taking place in Parliament on May 25th 2022. Community Land Scotland welcomes this timely debate and strongly supports community wealth building as a way of delivering the envisaged economic transformation at local and regional levels. This paper illustrates the close links between community wealth building, land reform and a just transition to net zero and outlines policy measures to help make community wealth building a reality for communities throughout Scotland.