Community Land Scotland

Community Land Scotland is a charity and membership organisation for community landowners and aspiring community landowners in Scotland. It was founded in 2010 to represent the interests of community landowners, promote legislation which empowers communities and provide a point of contact for community bodies interested in community land ownership. Its members are estimated to own approximately 500,000 acres of land in Scotland.^[1]

Objectives

Community Land Scotland states its main objectives as follows:^[2]

• Facilitate the exchange of information, enabling groups to learn from each others’ experience and successes
• Promote the growing importance of the community landowning sector to Scotland
• Reform The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 to simplify and strengthen powers to communities
• Encourage community groups to register an interest in land
• Work with communities to ease the process of communities taking ownership of public land

See also

• Development Trusts Association Scotland
• Land Reform in Scotland

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