ScotLand Futures: Shaping the future of Scotland’s land
What is ScotLand Futures?
Scotland’s land is at the heart of our communities, economy, and environment. Over the past 25 years, land reform has brought real change, but the journey isn’t over. ScotLand Futures is an opportunity to explore what a fully reformed approach to land in Scotland could look like and how we can make it happen.
This initiative is about thinking big, tackling challenges, providing certainty for the future and finding practical solutions to ensure land benefits everyone, from rural and urban communities to businesses and future generations.
ScotLand Futures - Shaping the future of Scotland's land
Why now?
Scotland is at a pivotal moment in land reform. While progress has been made, key issues remain in how our land is owned and used. Now is the time to explore the next big step, providing certainty for communities, businesses, and landowners alike.
Thank you for taking part
Our ScotLand Futures survey has now closed. We received a fantastic response, with contributions from people across Scotland and beyond. Thank you to everyone who took the time to share their views, experiences, and ideas about the future of Scotland’s land.
Your insights will play a vital role in shaping the conversation around land reform and will help us to build a shared understanding of how land can be owned and used in ways that support communities, businesses, and the environment over the long term.
Stay engaged
ScotLand Futures is about more than the survey. There are still plenty of ways to stay involved:
Attend an event: We’re hosting a series of online and in-person events across the country. Visit our events page to find out more and register to join the discussions.
Read and share contributions: We’ll continue to publish our ‘Four voices, one question’ blog series. So far, we have heard from a wide range of contributors, offering different perspectives on the future of Scotland’s land.
Join the conversation: Follow us on social media and use #ScotLandFutures to share your views and reflections.
What’s next?
The ideas and perspectives gathered through ScotLand Futures will contribute to shaping the future of land reform in Scotland. By bringing together a wide range of voices, we aim to develop a shared understanding of how land can be owned and used in ways that support communities, businesses, and the environment over the long term. Insights gathered will be used to inform public debate and support policy development, with a summary of contributions to be published later this year.
By providing us with your personal data in this survey you are consenting to the Scottish Land Commission processing your data for the purposes of this survey. Under the GDPR you have the right to withdraw your consent for us to process your data at any time. If you wish to withdraw your consent please email commsteam@landcommission.gov.scot, requesting that your data is removed from our systems. At this point your responses will be removed from our data. Responses to this survey may be passed to an external contractor for summarising and processing, however no personal data will be included in this and your personal data will only be accessed by select members of the Commission’s project team.
As the purpose of collecting this information is for the ScotLand futures survey, we will only use the information for this purpose and will delete your data from our systems once this purpose has been fulfilled. Data will be retained by the Commission until this project has been completed, no later than May 2027.
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