Four voices, one question: Part 4

As part of our ScotLand Futures initiative, the Scottish Land Commission is asking what would it mean to complete Scotland’s land reform journey.

Alongside our public engagement work, we’ve invited a range of contributors with deep and diverse experience of land, nature, and community to share their vision for the future. These blogs offer bold ideas, critical questions, and grounded reflections on the challenges and opportunities ahead. Together, they form a series of thought pieces intended to inform, inspire, and spark debate.

Contributors

Catriona Mallows

Catriona Mallows is a Research Associate at the University of the Highlands and Islands with a longstanding interest in rural livelihoods, community development, and land justice.
 

David McGilp

David McGilp is the Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley. As convenor of the Transport, Environment and Rural Affairs Committee, he has gained valuable insight into land, environmental issues, and the changes young people want to see.

Di Alexander

Di Alexander has over 40 years’ experience helping communities, particularly in the Highlands & Islands, secure good solutions to their affordable housing problems. He was instrumental in creating Lochaber Housing Association, the Highlands Small Communities Housing Trust and Rural Housing Burdens. These days he sits on various rural housing and fuel poverty boards.

Mike Staples

Mike Staples is Chief Executive of South of Scotland Community Housing (SOSCH), which supports community-led housing projects across the region.  He has a background in the planning and delivery of strategic regeneration and housing across Scotland and the UK and until recently served as a Board Member of Community Land Scotland.

These four contributions offer just a glimpse of the rich, complex questions at the heart of Scotland’s land reform journey.