Land Use & Reform

This Group takes forward an integrated approach to LINK’s engagement with developments from the Land Reform Bill, seeking join up with the principles of the Land Use Strategy, and ensuring that landscape concerns are sufficiently recognised in decisions around land use

The Land use and Reform group has a number of active members, a full list is shown below.

Convener

John Thomson

Staff liaison

Andrew Marks

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Why I was right to walk out of Government’s farming talks

04 Mar 2026

When independent government advisors have zero confidence in government policy, there’s something badly wrong. But zero confidence is what the Climate Change Committee says it has in the Scottish government’s policies for reducing farming emissions beyond 2030.  The climate watchdog’s latest report examines Scotland’s progress in reducing emissions and analyses whether government policy will do what it needs to […]

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Environmental representatives walk away from failed farming policy process

17 Dec 2025

Representatives of leading environmental organisations including Scottish Environment LINK and RSPB Scotland have today resigned from the Scottish Government’s farming policy group, saying the urgent need to help farmers and crofters tackle climate change and nature loss is being ignored.  Representatives are standing down from both the Agriculture Reform Implementation Oversight Board (ARIOB) and the […]

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The Natural Environment Bill part 3 – National Parks

09 May 2025

This is the third in a series of blogs looking at the Natural Environment Bill. Part 1 is available here and Part 2 is available here. Most of the political energy around National Parks in recent years has related to the Scottish Government’s commitment to establish at least one new Park by the end of […]

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