Community ownership

Understanding Urban Community Landownership

Author / Creator: Carey Doyle

Media type: Report

Date published: 2024

As the community landownership model was applied across Scotland it quickly became clear that urban communities were facing additional challenges in their buy outs, including:

• Lack of resources at the early stages
• Additional challenges for more disadvantaged communities
• Land of understanding of the process
• Lack of confidence in urban communities by decision makers

How will local communities get a fair share of record investment from offshore wind farms?

Author / Creator: Alison Murray

Media type: Article

Date published: 2023

Scotland outstrips the world for wind FDI investment in 2022. However, community-owned wind farms generate much more benefit than commercially operated schemes.

Green finance, land reform and a just transition to net zero

Author / Creator: Jon Hollingdale

Media type: Discussion Paper

Date published: February 2022

Land reform is required to meet the climate change objectives of the Scottish Government.

Community-based land reform: Lessons from Scotland

Author / Creator: John Bryden

Media type: Academic Paper

Date published: 2007

Drawing on insights from community-based natural resource management and local development,  qualified evidence is offered suggesting that, as in the current Scottish case, community-centric land reform has a promising future.