Community Ownership

Almost 11,000 hectares of land in the Outer Hebrides will move into community ownership following funding from the Scottish Land Fund. Bays of Harris Community Estate Limited has been given £1,082,680 to buy a 10,927-hectare crofting estate from a private seller.

A community group is to take over the long-term running of a hall following a successful lease period.

A charity supporting young people with additional support and complex needs will move into a new home thanks to a successful Community Asset Transfer (CAT).

The Scottish Affairs Committee will hold the next evidence session of its inquiry into GB Energy and the net zero transition, exploring community-owned renewable energy projects in Scotland and community benefits schemes.  

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