Impact Evaluation of the Community Right to Buy

The Community Right to Buy (CRtB) was introduced under Part 2 of the LandReform (Scotland) Act 2003 as a mechanism for encouraging opportunities forcommunity ownership of land and land assets in rural Scotland. The CRtB provisiongives community bodies representing rural communities with a population of lessthan 10,000 the right to register a community interest in land and to obtain firstrefusal on the land when the landowner wishes to sell.The Scottish Government commissioned Ipsos MORI, in collaboration withScotland‟s Rural College (SRUC), to evaluate the impact of Land Reform (Scotland)Act 2003 on local communities in the period from 2004 to 2014.