RLUP LAND+ HANDBOOK 

 

 

We are delighted to make available our Land+ Handbook: 

A community-led approach to collaboration,

for the benefit of people and place.​

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Written by Lizzie Williams and Rachel Skene, the Handbook is a compendium of the many strands of work that have taken place since the inception of the NW2045 RLUP pilot in 2021, through to Spring 2025, and represents the invaluable experience gained during this pilot phase.

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Our Handbook focuses on the micro-pilot in the Kinlochbervie Community Council area. It also documents our work to understand the opportunities around Natural Capital markets across the NW2045, which took a locally-appropriate ‘crofting township’ approach, including Grazings Clerk, crofters, land owner and community.

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The objective of our community-led RLUP has been to create the conditions that catalyse change, rather than implementing a pre-determined programme of delivery.

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The work has demonstrated that facilitating conversations and nurturing connections can empower people; engender hope, a sense of possibility and agency, so that people can work together in trusting relationships to create a better future.

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A community of place is now more empowered to work together – community, crofters and landowner - exploring and addressing all manner of issues, from childcare to natural capital options to renewable energy to offshore servicing.

 

Through this experience a set of Principles has been produced which will inform the next stages of RLUP work. This will be implemented more widely across the NW2045 area, continuing to work with communities of place - including landowners, land managers and tenants - towards the NW2045 Vision.

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For further information about the Handbook, please

contact Lizzie.w.williams@northwest2045.scot. 

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