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 560,000
acres
The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial and US customary systems. It is traditionally defined as the area of one chain by one furlong (66 by 660 feet), which is exactly equal to 10 square chains, of a square mile, 4,840 square ya ...
of land in the country.
Objectives
Community Land Scotland states its main objectives as follows:
* 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
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Land Reform in Scotland
Land reform in Scotland is the ongoing process by which the ownership of land, its distribution and the law which governs it is modified, reformed and modernised by property and regulatory law.
Land ownership in Scotland
Scotland's land issues ...
References
Charities based in Scotland
Community organizations
Organisations based in Inverclyde
Greenock
Organisations based in the Outer Hebrides
Land reform in Scotland
2010 establishments in Scotland
Organizations established in 2010
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