Scotland’s Land Reform Futures (JHI-E3-1): Review of landownership data and analyses contributing to development of the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill (ENRA 2025 poster)

The Scotland’s Land Reform Futures project (JHI-E3-1), as well as additional policy responsive projects, have involved dataset review, integration, and novel analyses seeking to inform the development of the Land Reform (Scotland) Bill (currently passing through Parliament). This has included work identifying and characterising large landholdings that may fall in scope of provisions set out in the Bill and explores the impact of spatial contiguity of large landholdings (at the request of the Land Reform Bill team). Regular meetings and correspondence with the Bill team has raised awareness of issues surrounding elements of the Bill, built enduring networks with key Scottish Government officials involved in the drafting of the Bill (several of whom have shared positive feedback on the value of this policy-focussed analysis), and was cited in the Stage 1 report on the Bill by the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee.