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'''Community Land Scotland''' is a charity and membership organisation for community landowners and aspiring community landowners. It was founded in 2010 to represent the interests of community landowners, promote legislation which empowers communities and provide a point of contact for community bodies interested in community land ownership.
Its members are estimated to own approximately 560,000 acres of land in the country.<ref>{{cite web|title=Community Land Scotland|url=https://www.communitylandscotland.org.uk/}}</ref>
==Objectives== Community Land Scotland states its main objectives as follows:<ref>{{cite web|title=What we do|url=http://www.communitylandscotland.org.uk/about-us/what-we-do/|website=Community Land Scotland|accessdate=6 March 2017}}</ref>
* Facilitate the exchange of information, enabling groups to learn from each other's experience and successes * Promote the growing importance of the community landowning sector to Scotland * Reform The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 to simplify and strengthen powers to communities * Encourage community groups to register an interest in land * Work with communities to ease the process of communities taking ownership of public land
==See also== * Land Reform in Scotland
==References== {{Reflist}}
Category:Charities based in Scotland Category:Community organizations Category:Organisations based in Inverclyde Category:Greenock Category:Organisations based in the Outer Hebrides Category:Land reform in Scotland Category:2010 establishments in Scotland Category:Organizations established in 2010
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