1. Community-based land reform in Scotland
Lesley Riddoch

2. Some stats Scotland 19.46 million acres
432 interests own approx 10m acres
16 own approx 2 million acres
25,000 community buyout members own ½ million acres

3. Tom johnston 1909
The first step in reform… is to destroy those superstitions. Show the people that our old nobility is not noble; that its lands are stolen lands –stolen either by force or fraud. So long as half a dozen families own one half of Scotland, so long will countless families own none of it.

4. The Budget The Land and The People, London: Methuen
Winston Churchill 1909
Roads are made, streets are made, railway services are improved, electric light turns night into day, water is brought from reservoirs a hundred miles off – and all the while the landlord sits still.
To not one of those improvements does the land monopolist contribute, and yet by every one of them the value of his land is sensibly enhanced.
The Budget The Land and The People, London: Methuen

5. CANNICH

6. Communities to the rescue

7. “I don’t know whether to throw a party or throw my hands in the air (over) the massive task that lies ahead.”

8. Dunoon were not the first folk to feel that way!

9. …it’s a collection of people

10. Marlin Eckhard “Professor Maruma”
absent owners ………………...
Keith Schellenberg
Ninth Laird of Eigg
Marlin Eckhard “Professor Maruma”
Final Laird of Eigg

12. Perspective MATTERS
Daunting …..
….manageable

13. Eigg had scenic splendour
Black cattle back on the beach
Singing Sands

14. And diesel generators

15. NOW EIGGTRICITY ; SOLAR Wind and hydro

17. DIY Solar Panels

18. the real Eiggtricity

19. Private stagnation more risky than community buyouts
300 new or refurbished housing units and house plots
direct employment up 368%,
business turnover up 254% ,
number of private enterprises up over 100%,
value of contracts and local staff up 434%,
7MW of renewable energy capacity installed,
£34m new investment delivered with a further £25m planned
combined value of assets up to £59 million.

20. According to David Cameron, Chair of Community Land Scotland the results from 12 remote community-owned estates; “completely destroy a myth that communities can only survive by the supposed largesse of private landowners.”

21. West whitlawburn COOPERATIVE

22. Pairc

23. Carbeth

24. And Barry Downs

25. Castle toward

26. fountainbridge