Why the battle still rages over land ownership in Scotland

It aims to make community buy-outs easier, to provide tenants with more information about the management of their land, and to give ministers the power to break up some large estates at the point of sale. It was one of the events which led to a public inquiry into conditions in the Highlands and, in 1886, to Scotland's first major land reform. He said community ownership had led to the planting of 600,000 trees, the revitalisation of a hydro-electric scheme and the building of many new homes.