Land for Housing

Dr Calum MacLeod Community Land Scotland

“For most buyers an estate is a luxury purchase to enjoy, not unlike a superyacht or a Lamborghini”.

Policy Framework for Community Land & Asset Ownership

• Land Reform Act 2003

• Community Empowerment Act 2015

• Land Reform Act 2016

(supporting rural and urban communities)

• HIE & SG institutional support [+ SoSE?]

• Scottish Land Fund (£10M p/a)

• Scottish Land Commission

“For Scotland’s community land ownership sector to reach its potential our key recommendation is that a clear vision is now needed for the way in which community ownership matures over the coming decades to be a mainstream route to delivering sustainable development for communities across rural and urban Scotland.”

•Duty to consider desirability of rural repopulation and resettlement

•Compulsory Purchase Powers for resettlement

•Maps of no longer inhabited human settlements

•Local Place Plans

•Master Plan Consent Areas

•Duty to consider desirability of rural repopulation and resettlement

•Compulsory Purchase Powers for resettlement

•Maps of no longer inhabited human settlements

•Local Place Plans

•Master Plan Consent Areas

•Duty to consider desirability of rural repopulation and resettlement

•Compulsory Purchase Powers for resettlement

•Maps of no longer inhabited human settlements

•Local Place Plans

•Master Plan Consent Areas

• Community land ownership, rural repopulation & housing closely linked

• Step-change in vision and policy thinking required to normalise community ownership as a way of delivering sustainable rural development

• Need imaginative cross-cutting policy action around relationship between land, rural renewal and housing incorporating wide range of policy tools