Community Ownership

Community benefits are guaranteed to continue driving the use of Thankerton Hall in South Lanarkshire after ownership of the premises passed from the council to the Thancard Trust. The facility has been sold to the Trust at a discounted price under the Community Asset Transfer (CAT) process, meaning

Local communities are to get new opportunities to benefit from renewable energy developments under a pilot scheme announced by the Scottish Government. Community groups, from South Lanarkshire to the Highlands, will be given the chance to lease one of 10 publicly-owned Forestry Land and Scotland (FL

Orkney Islands Council (OIC) has secured a loan from The National Wealth Fund (NWF) for its six-turbine wind farm at Quanterness.  The 28.8MW wind farm will generate electricity which will be exported on to the national grid, supplying green energy to homes and businesses in support of Scotland

Land reform campaigners and community landowners have called for a £25 million annual fund to maintain Scotland’s world-beating progress towards community ownership of land and buildings. Such is the demand for community ownership across Scotland, this year the Scottish Land Fund (SLF) &

A group of local volunteers has officially taken ownership of Bonnybridge Community Education Centre from Falkirk Council - unlocking more than £450,000 of investment to make the building warmer, greener and more affordable to run.  The transfer and property transaction was legally conclu

Views are being sought on how to improve legal rights intended to help community groups take ownership of local land and assets.

A Dundee sheriff has refused an appeal by a trust against a decision of the Scottish ministers to allow a community body to exercise the right to purchase derelict land in St Andrews owned by the trust, in the first appeal of its kind in Scotland. Forthtay Ltd Employee Trust, which owned a plot of l

A Community Benefit Society based on the Isle of Arran has been granted planning consent for a 6MW solar farm, with the aim of generating 5,600MWh of clean renewable energy from 2027. Glenkiln Solar Farm will be located around 1km west of Lamlash and will provide enough renewable energy to meet one

A Community Asset Transfer has been agreed for a hall in Cambuslang.

A new website has been launched to provide a central hub for research and knowledge-sharing on community landownership, addressing longstanding issues of fragmented research and limited accessibility. Developed through the Community Landownership Academic Network (CLAN) and funded by the Scottish La

East Ayrshire Council’s Cabinet agreed this week to approve a 10-year lease of Fenwick’s King George V playing field to Fenwick Community Initiatives under the Community Asset Transfer framework. Fenwick Community Initiatives, which is a registered charity, identified the playing field a

Three Falkirk Council-owned properties will be transferred to community ownership and management following a decision taken by the council's executive. The transfers are part of the council’s Community Asset Transfer (CAT) programme, which enables local groups to operate and maintain buildings

Representatives of the Stornoway Trust, Muaitheabhal Community Wind Farm Trust and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar met on Friday 6th December to begin work to explore how offers of up to 20% community ownership in both the Stornoway Wind Farm and the Uisenis Wind Farm can best be brought into community o

A community group in the South of Scotland has gained local support for a historic land transfer.

Six community projects in the Highlands and Islands are among eight in Scotland to benefit from the latest round of Scottish Land Fund (SLF) approvals.