Community Land Scotland

Community Land Scotland (CLS) has called for access to safe and warm housing at prices local people can afford as it publishes its new report on community-led housing today. The report, Home Delivery – Community Led Housing in rural Scotland, charts the success of the very many rural comm

Land reform must form an essential component of Scotland’s green economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, according to Community Land Scotland (CLS). In a letter to Just Transition Commission, which is advising on a net-zero economy, the body said how the land and other natural assets,

A bold ‘Rural New Deal’ embracing further land reform should be one of the foundations on which to rebuild Scotland’s economy and prepare a greener future, MSPs have been told.

The population of the Scottish islands are showing signs of increasing after years of decline, the BBC reports.

Copperworks Housing Association has celebrated another significant milestone in the regeneration of its local community. Following several years of hard work and determination Copperworks, with the support of local residents and the Royston Strategy Group, finally acquired a large area of derelict l

Community land buying powers have not been used since they were brought in a year ago, prompting claims the law is not “fit for purpose”.

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.

Peter Peacock discusses how new community right to buy laws will open a new next chapter in Scotland’s land reform story. There has been much talk of land reform in recent years, but Scotland’s highly concentrated land ownership patterns persist. There are consequences from this ownership patter

A Western Isles community has completed the purchase of its local estate for £85,000 in just one year. The Keose Glebe Steering Group announced at the weekend that it had bought the former church land on Lewis.