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The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 extended the Community Right to Buy to communities of any size, including those in urban areas. The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 allows ministers to compel landowners to sell if they decide that the sale will further sustainable development in the area.
The second part of the act establishes the community right to buy, allowing communities with populations of up to 10,000 to register an interest in land, entitling them to first right of refusal should the owner put the land up for sale or intend to transfer ownership, provided a representative community body can be formed to carry out the ...
During this period the Land Registration etc. (Scotland) Act 2012 introduced changes to the conveyancing system in Scotland, with the aim of having all land in Scotland registered under the Land Register of Scotland within 10 years. Prior to the act, entry of land into the register would be prompted by a sale but other transfers of land would ...
Established Titles is a company which sells souvenir plots of Scottish land from 1 sq ft (0.09 m 2) to 20 sq ft (1.86 m 2).The company retains legal ownership of the land. While the company claims that those who buy the 'plots' can choose to be titled Lord, Laird or Lady, as part of a supposed "traditional Scottish custom", souvenir plots are too small to be legally registered for ownership ...
Scots property law governs the rules relating to property found in the legal jurisdiction of Scotland.. In Scots law, the term 'property' does not solely describe land. Instead the term 'a person's property' is used when describing objects or 'things' (in Latin res) that an individual holds a right of owners
The Scottish Land Fund (SLF) was founded in 2000, as a part of land reform in Scotland. Its goal is to help communities buy their land from their landlords. The SLF was capitalized by the UK Lottery-founded New Opportunities Fund. The initial fund was 10,000,000 GBP and this was later increased to 15,000,000 GBP.
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It is available for public viewing online at ScotLIS – Scotland's Land Information Service [22] and title sheets for land can be obtained via e-mail upon payment of a modest fee. In 2016, a Registers of Scotland report found that 60% of titles are on the Land Register, which is 1.6 million titles or 29% of the land mass of Scotland. [23]