Research and reports

Land Lines: Local authority land acquisition in Germany and the Netherlands: are there lessons for Scotland?

This, the sixth paper in the Land Lines series, Professor Tony Crook looks at examples of land acquisition in the Netherlands and Germany and the lessons that Scotland could learn.

Land Lines: The delivery of public interest led development in Scotland

This, the second paper in the Land Lines series, Steven Tolson and Archie Rintoul look at the approaches adopted to achieve public interest led development in Scotland.

Land Lines: Land, for the many, not the few? Limitations on the scale of land ownership

In this paper, the third in the Land Lines series, Peter Peacock looks at the scale of concentration of ownership of land in Scotland.

Research on interventions to manage land markets and limit the concentration of land ownership elsewhere in the world

This research report looks at international approaches to limiting scale and concentration of land ownership.

Land Lines: Human rights and the work of the Scottish Land Commission

In this, the fifth paper in the Land Lines series, Dr Kirsteen Shields looks at the opportunities provided by land reform for further realisation of economic, social and cultural human rights.

Increasing the Availability of Farmland for New Entrants to Agriculture in Scotland

The James Hutton Institute was commissioned to investigate new models and structures to increase the availability of land for new entrants; provide practical guidance on existing joint venture models; identify barriers to succession and retirement; and develop a baseline for measuring success.

An assessment of historic attempts to capture land value uplift in the UK

Heriot Watt University was commissioned to review the UK's historic experience of land value capture and identify what lessons current policy makers could take from this experience.

Land Focus: Land Value Capture

This briefing paper looks at land value capture, what it is and the Land Commission's work.

Compulsory Sales Orders: A proposal from the Scottish Land Commission

A new Compulsory Sales Order (CSO) power could tackle the blight of abandoned buildings and parcels of vacant and derelict land in town centres and communities across Scotland.

Advice to Scottish Ministers on Community Ownership and Community Right to Buy

This paper provides advice to Scottish Ministers on the key findings and recommendations from the Scottish Land Commission’s review of community ownership mechanisms.

Land Focus: Land Value Tax Briefing Paper

Land values have increased more than 450% since 1995, outstripping the growth of assets on the land by a considerable margin. This has led many people to question how the benefits from increasing land values are distributed – and whether more needs to be done to ensure that the gains from rising land value benefit society as a whole.

SRUC Report - Review of the effectiveness of current community ownership mechanisms

SRUC Report - Review of the effectiveness of current community ownership mechanisms