By Professor John Robertson
Behind a paywall for me but already answered here, I hope, and by the Guardian in January 2024:
In the Guardian today:
Local communities, often in deprived neighbourhoods, are buying up derelict and unused property for village shops, play parks, community centres and, in one case, a film set for war movies, using buyout powers introduced by the Scottish parliament since its foundation in 1999.
The land reform debate is often overshadowed by the buyouts of islands or totemic Highland estates. Yet those sales have ground to halt, partly due to competition from private buyers pursuing speculative investments using woodland and peat restoration as carbon sinks, which has sharply driven up land prices.
Scottish government data shows that by the end of 2022 there were 754 places in community ownership in Scotland, up from 85 in 2000, run by more than 500 community groups, with many scattered across the Highlands and the Western Isles.https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/01/community-buyout-projects-scotland
Though introduced by Scottish Labour, the scheme has been progressively beefed-up under the SNP:
This right to buy came into force in April 2020. It allows compliant community groups the opportunity to apply for the right to buy land to further sustainable development and includes salmon fishing, mineral rights and, significantly, this new right to buy allows a community body (which is subject to statutory regulation) to nominate a third party purchaser to take title to the ground being acquired. It should be noted that this latest right to buy is an absolute right to buy, meaning a community organisation may force the sale of land even where the owner of the land is not contemplating a sale.https://www.gov.scot/policies/land-reform/right-to-buy-land-to-further-sustainable-development/
In England, the above right to buy does not apply. See: https://plunkett.co.uk/plunkett-foundation-calls-for-a-uk-wide-community-right-to-buy/
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Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Scotland has a ‘right to roam’. People can go where they like.
Land is exempt from tax to keep farms together.
The rateable value of estates could be increased. Over a certain size.
Anyone can buy an acre of land and put a hut on it. They do not need to when they can go where they like.
Scotland was depopulated by Westminster policies. The Clearances and higher unemployment. People left to find a better life. Overseas. Deported. Slavery.
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Scotland unlike England does not have a trespass law, but obviously there are privacy laws, which extend to access to land sometimes.
The ‘no trespassing’ signs in England are all over the countryside, last time I was there anyway. Isn’t it the case that only something like 2% of land in England is accessible for the public to enjoy legally?
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