Research and reports

Enabling infrastructure interim report

This paper explores further the Infrastructure First Approach (building upon the independent review of the planning system recommendation) and the core principles of prioritisation, funding and delivery of Infrastructure to enable development as they relate to both the current Scottish planning system and potential changes being considered through the current Planning (Scotland) Bill. E

Advice to Scottish Ministers on Options for Land Value Capture

This paper provides Scottish Ministers with initial advice based on recommendations from the Scottish Land Commission’s options for Land Value Uplift Capture.

Briefing note: Large scale and concentrated land ownership in Scotland

Short summary of the Investigation into the issues associated with Large Scale and Concentrated Land Ownership in Scotland and the Recommendations to Scottish Ministers.

Investigation of Potential Land Value Tax Policy Options for Scotland

The University of Reading has been appointed by the Scottish Land Commission (SLC) to conduct research to assess, with reference to international experience, the potential of land value taxation to contribute to a more productive, accountable and diverse pattern of land ownership and use in Scotland and to identify a set of potential policy options that merit further consideration by the SLC.

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

SRUC Report - Review of the effectiveness of current 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.

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.

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.

Land Focus: Land Value Capture

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

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.

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.

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.