Community Land Scotland
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Community Land Scotland is a charity and membership organisation for community landowners and aspiring community landowners. It was founded in 2010 to represent the interests of community landowners, promote legislation which empowers communities and provide a point of contact for community bodies interested in community land ownership.
Its members are estimated to own approximately 560,000 acres of land in the country.{{cite web|title=Community Land Scotland|url=https://www.communitylandscotland.org.uk/}}
Objectives
Community Land Scotland states its main objectives as follows:{{cite web|title=What we do|url=http://www.communitylandscotland.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/|website=Community Land Scotland|accessdate=6 March 2017}}
- Facilitate the exchange of information, enabling groups to learn from each other's experience and successes
- Promote the growing importance of the community landowning sector to Scotland
- Reform The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 to simplify and strengthen powers to communities
- Encourage community groups to register an interest in land
- Work with communities to ease the process of communities taking ownership of public land
See also
References
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Category:Charities based in Scotland
Category:Community organizations
Category:Organisations based in Inverclyde
Category:Organisations based in the Outer Hebrides
Category:Land reform in Scotland
Category:2010 establishments in Scotland
Category:Organizations established in 2010
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