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Delivering greater benefit from Common Good land and building

18.09.2019

Grace Brown, Jonty Leibowitz

A report to the Scottish Land Commission

This research was conducted by the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) on behalf of the Scottish Land Commission (SLC) to investigate the potential for Common Good land and buildings in Scotland to deliver greater public benefit.

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