Understanding what’s happening with Scotland’s land

31 August, 2020

Human Rights and Land Reform: A springboard for future resilience

As part of the ‘Scotland’s Land & Economy’ series exploring the fundamental role of land in achieving Scotland’s post-pandemic recovery and renewal, Scottish Land Commissioner Megan MacInnes explores the relationship between land reform and the delivery of our broader human rights, health and place-based ambitions.

14 August, 2020

TFC Blog: Tenancy Queries

After three years in post as the Tenant Farming Commissioner, a lot of people ask me about my general day to day work.

13 August, 2020

The Power of Community-led Regeneration

Building on the recent blog ‘Land and collective wellbeing: fertile soil’, Louisa Macdonell, Chief Executive of Development Trusts Association Scotland (DTAS), explores the power of volunteers and communities in determining their own local regeneration.

11 August, 2020

Building Community Wealth

Building on the recent blog ‘Land and collective wellbeing: fertile soil’, Julie McLachlan, Director at CEIS Ayrshire and Senior Manager – Economic Policy at North Ayrshire Council (NAC), explores the concept of building community wealth through NAC's Community Wealth Building strategy.

6 August, 2020

Rethinking land use for future generations

Building on the recent blog ‘Land and collective wellbeing: fertile soil’ Jane Davidson, Chair of the Wales Inquiry of the UK wide Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, a smallholder and the author of #futuregen: Lessons from a Small Country, explores how we can rethink land use to look after the interests of future generations.

4 August, 2020

Land and collective wellbeing: fertile soil

As part of the ‘Scotland’s Land & Economy’ series exploring the fundamental role of land in achieving Scotland’s post-pandemic recovery and renewal, Scottish Land Commission Chief Executive Hamish Trench and Dr Katherine Trebeck, Advocacy and Influencing lead at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll), explore the connections between land and an economic system that delivers human and environmental wellbeing.

22 July, 2020

A Response to ‘Putting land back into the economic model’

Deryck Irving, Director of Strategy and Development at the Central Scotland Green Network Trust*, explores the themes raised in a recent blog and examines how immediate action is possible to tackle the issue of vacant and derelict land.

14 July, 2020

New approach needed to deliver houses for rural Scotland

Scotland needs to look at new models of bringing land forward to deliver the much-needed rural housing, according to a new report published today.