Background: The modernisation of the Land Settlement (Scotland) Act 1919 Scottish Green partypublished at 12:28 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 2016
According to reports in the Sunday Herald: , external
"A land revolution is being planned for Scotland which would see huge swathes of countryside taken from rich private landowners and handed over to ordinary people.
"Campaigners - spearheaded by the Scottish Greens - say a law passed to give land to Scottish soldiers returning from the First World War can be repurposed to reverse what they believe is the most inequitable land ownership in the western world.
"More than half of Scotland is owned by fewer than 500 people or businesses. Now campaigners want to use the long-forgotten 1919 Land Resettlement (Scotland) Act to even the scales."