Drawing on insights from community-based natural resource management and local development,  qualified evidence is offered suggesting that, as in the current Scottish case, community-centric land reform has a promising future. 

Central  is the power that a landowner holds over local land use decisions and the extent to which local communities and other stakeholders can influence/inform those decisions.

An illustrative map – based on real Scottish geographic data – showing what a reformed former grouse moor could look like.

An assessment of the economic potential of alternative uses for Scottish land currently used for grouse shooting.

This report outlines the case for public land value capture – the process by which councils, not those selling land, can benefit from the increase in land value due to changing use (such as planning permission for housing) or can reduce house prices by not passing that uplifted cost on to renters and buyers of the houses built on such land. This briefing is based on Common Weal’s submission to the Planning Bill consultation in response to question, on alternative ways to finance infrastructure provision.