THE Scottish Government is being urged not to listen to “vested interests” but press on with more radical land reform.
to Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs Mairi Gougeon on the issue – and they are calling for others to add their names., said it had penned the letter after a meeting with Gougeon where it had pushed “the case for an integrated approach to land reform in the forthcoming legislation”.called Land Reform for the Common Good, through which the think tank argued that land reform in Scotland has been too “fragmented and piecemeal” to have a real impact.
He called for the public interest test on Scottish land sales to be brought in at a threshold of 500 hectares – not the Government’s proposed 3000 – as well as for similar tests to be triggered by the sale of community assets such as piers, slipways, hotels, community facilities, or greenspace so the law can be applied to urban as well as rural contexts.
“The paper highlights that, since 2016, the Scottish Land Fund has assisted in bringing just 0.1%, of Scotland’s rural land into community ownership. In contrast, 139,124 hectares of Scotland’s rural land changed ownership in 2022 alone, with community purchasers conspicuous by their absence.”The Foundation said land reform should be seen as a “distinctive area of public policy, cutting across Government portfolios in a strategic and increasingly interventionist way”.
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