This breifing has been produced by Community Land Scotland. It should be read in conjunction with the Scottish Government’s Community Right to Buy Guidance notes.
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Below you will find a webinar, delivered by Sandra Macaskill of CaskieCo, who has researched and written the publication ‘Public Toilets – the real cost of spending a penny’ for the Community Ownership Support Service, this webinar will draw on the experiences from urban and rural communities, discuss the issues to be considered and highlights some of the innovative approaches being taken.
Please note – this resource was produced in 2018 and has not been updated to reflect guidance in relation to Covid-19
Sheila Hobbs, Planning Director from Scott Hobbs Planning discusses different strategies to provide solutions to problems faced throughout the planning process.
This webinar along with our guide “The Planning Journey: 10 Junctions A Town Planners Perspective” (see below) seeks to help you think creatively about how to engage in the planning process. It looks at real circumstances or possible examples which may help communities think of alternative ways to be involved in the planning process, to secure benefits through development which may not otherwise be available to them.
This guide seeks to help you think creatively about how to engage in the planning process. It looks at real circumstances or possible examples which may help communities think of alternative ways to be involved in the planning process, to secure benefits through development which may not otherwise be available to them.
In this webinar, Sheila Hobbs, Planning Director from Scott Hobbs Planning discusses different strategies to provide solutions to problems faced throughout the planning process.
Community woodlands are growing and thriving in Scotland, with over 200 communities across the country engaged in owning or managing woodlands. This fact sheet aims to highlight the steps required for communities to own and manage their own woodland.
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Downloadable version of the 7 government guidances to Assesing Best Value.
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This new PDF has been developed by Community Ownership Support Service (COSS). It is used by COSS advisors to identify where you are in the process, as laid down in Part 5; Asset Transfer, in the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015. It helps to guide you through the steps along the way to achieving your goals. Side one of the poster shows the four phases of the asset transfer process and signposts each phase of the journey. Side two gives more detail and links to relevant information for each phase.
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A Community Right to Buy (CRtB) is a pre-emptive right to buy land (or property) for communities throughout Scotland under Part 2 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003. It provides for those communities, who successfully register a community interest in land, to have the frst option to buy when the registered land is offered for sale.
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Negotiated sales of privately owned land and buildings.
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The Crofting Community Right to Buy (CCRtB) in Part 3 of the Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 (“the Act”) creates a setting in which a Crofting Community Body (CCB), representing an identifed crofting community, may acquire eligible croft land (including “fshing rights and / or mineral rights (except mineral rights to oil, coal, gas, gold or silver))
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Part 3 of the Act 2015 on Participation Requests is focussed on extending and improving community participation in improving outcomes for their communities. It is the legislation that enables communities to request to participate in decisions and processes which are aimed at improving outcomes.
Download PDFThis report describes and illustrates the process of creating a charter for Scotland’s first renaissance town. The town charter was created by the people of Neilston, for the people of Neilston. It illustrates their 20-year vision for the village.
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Written by the Knowledge Translation Network ‘Evidence from Elsewhere: Gathering, analysing and using other people’s evidence’ guides anyone in the third sector who wants to use secondary evidence to inform, influence and improve policy or practice, or both, through the process of using secondary evidence.
Using other people’s evidence can be useful to fill gaps in your evidence or to help make a case for a new service or project.
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The detail of the Act in full. This should be used to relate the Asset Transfer Guidance Notes from the Scottish Government to the specific sections referred to within the Act.
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The Scottish FA guide to Community Asset Transfers is aimed at football clubs across Scotland who are either considering or in the process of negotiating a change in the way they manage and secure facilities in their local community.
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This guidance has been developed for both relevant authorities and community bodies. Relevant authorities are required to have regard to guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers in carrying out their functions in relation to asset transfer.
There is more guidance for community transfer bodies on completing the request form, and more for relevant authorities on the acknowledgement and notices they have to issue following receipt of a request.
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This guidance has been developed for relevant authorities. Relevant authorities are required to have regard to guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers in carrying out their functions in relation to asset transfer.
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Introductory guide examining the opportunities and challenges involved with taking former civic buildings into community ownership.
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Full guidance for community bodies, land owners and third parties.
Published by The Scottish Government, March 2016.
Links below to the SG CRtB website with information on how to make an application, templates etc
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