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Community Ownership is Increasing in Scotland

December 8, 2017 by resas No Comments | Category Communities and third sector

The Estimate of Community Owned Land in Scotland 2017 publication was released today. The publication presents the area of land in community ownership, the number of land parcels/assets in community ownership and the number of community groups that own land parcels/assets.

The 2017 release is the first Estimate of Community Owned Land in Scotland publication. The publication will track progress towards the Scottish Government target of having one million acres of land in Scotland in community ownership by the end of 2020.

As at June 2017 there were 562,230 acres in community ownership this is 2.9% of the total land area of Scotland. There were 492 land parcels/assets in community ownership owned by 403 community groups.

In the first six months of 2017, six additional land parcels/assets came into community ownership, bringing an additional 94.23 acres being in community ownership.

Community groups who own land parcels/assets are widespread across Scotland. Although the area of land in community ownership is concentrated in two Local Authorities: Highland and Na h‑Eileanan Siar. Na h-Eileanan Siar contains 385,340 acres of land in community ownership and Highland contains 141,912 acres. This equates to 93.7% (527,252 acres) of the total land in community ownership in Scotland.

The full statistical publication can be accessed here.

The 2017 release is the first time the Estimate of Community Owned Land in Scotland publication is being released and it is being published as experimental statistics. We would welcome feedback on the publication. Please provide any feedback to the following email address: CommunityLandStatistics@gov.scot

Tags: Community Groups, Community Owned, Community Owned Land, Community Ownership, Land Reform, One Million Acre Target

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