Community Land Scotland

Community Land Scotland is a charity and membership organisation for community landowners and aspiring community landowners. 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 the country.[1]

Objectives

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

  • Facilitate the exchange of information, enabling groups to learn from each other's 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

References

  1. ↑ "What we do". Community Land Scotland. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "What we do". Community Land Scotland. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
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