This event will highlight the crucial role that public bodies can play in working proactively with communities to tackle Scotland’s rural housing crisis.

The briefing follows the publication of the Scottish Land Commission’s Land for Rural Housing report, which sets out a strategic approach to mobilising public land for housing development. The report emphasises the need for stronger public sector leadership to create the certainty, land supply, and opportunity required to make rural housing delivery viable.

CHT will share insights from their work with the Colonsay Community Development Company, which successfully delivered much-needed homes and business units on the island. Their experience demonstrates how partnerships between communities, landowners, and public bodies can help unlock land for housing in areas where market-led development has fallen short.

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