Scottish Land Commission

The V&A is spearheading a £1 billion transformation at Dundee Waterfront. Image Credit: Ross Fraser McLean After attending a public-interest led development seminar hosted by the Scottish Land Commission in Glasgow last week, Keith Geddes outlines what the public sector can do to demonstrate it

The Scottish Land Commission has begun work on developing proposals for new Compulsory Sale Order (CSO) power to make use of derelict and urban vacant land. CSOs would be a new legal mechanism available to local authorities to require abandoned buildings or small plots of land, that have been dereli

Kathie Pollard Scottish Land Commission policy officer, Kathie Pollard, looks at Compulsory Sale Orders.

The Scottish Land Commission has announced a free day-long seminar on public interest-led development, bringing together developers, local authorities, architects, surveyors, investors and members of the public.

Big civic projects such as regenerating the former docklands in Glasgow and Dundee must be led by the public sector, according to a new discussion paper. Commissioned to open up discussion about making more of Scotland’s land, The Delivery of Public Interest Led Development in Scotland is the seco

A “dysfunctional land market” lies at the root of Scotland’s housing crisis and intervention is required to increase the supply of land for new homes, according to a new discussion paper. The first in an independent series of discussion papers commissioned by the Scottish Land Commission, ‘T