Research and reports

Scale and Concentration: Response from Ministers

Response from Roseanna Cunningham to the Scottish Land Commission's work of scale and concentration of land ownership in rural Scotland.

Vacant and Derelict Land Task Force: Phase one report

This Phase One report, undertaken by Ryden, provides a foundation document for the Task Force and its partner organisations. It recognises Scotland’s substantial expertise and successes in dealing with vacant and derelict sites, while examining the challenges and potential to accelerate their productive re-use.

A Review of the Conduct of Agents of Agricultural Landlords and Tenants

A report to Scottish Ministers by Dr Bob McIntosh CBE, Tenant Farming Commissioner.

Land Lines: Encouraging agricultural land lettings in Scotland for the 21st century

This, the fourth paper in the Land Lines series, looks at ways to encourage agricultural land letting in Scotland with a particular focus on potential changes to taxation.

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.