# Community Land Scotland

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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](/source/Community_ownership).

Its members are estimated to own approximately 560,000 [acres](/source/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](/source/Land_Reform_in_Scotland)

==References==
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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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