A consultation response from Common Weal’s Energy Working Group on improving energy efficiency in Scotland’s private rented sector.

Common Weal’s response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on energy efficiency in homes.

A response to the Call for Evidence on the future of heating rural homes.

This policy paper was commissioned by Calor and was written by Common Weal, Glasgow Caledonian University and the Energy Poverty Research Initiative.

A comprehensive framework for the decarbonisation of Scotland’s heating sector in a way that eliminates fuel poverty in this country.

A national rent controls scheme based on the quality of the home and the wellbeing the tenants can expect.

An alternative approach to measuring building energy efficiency.

An illustrative map – based on real Scottish geographic data – showing what a reformed former grouse moor could look like.

An assessment of the economic potential of alternative uses for Scottish land currently used for grouse shooting.

This report forms Common Weal’s response to the first stage of the Scottish government’s review of building energy standards and is part of our ongoing work on energy and housing policy.

This report outlines the case for public land value capture – the process by which councils, not those selling land, can benefit from the increase in land value due to changing use (such as planning permission for housing) or can reduce house prices by not passing that uplifted cost on to renters and buyers of the houses built on such land.

Ben Wray analyses new data on the experience of living in Scotland’s private rented sector, and argues for reversing the trend under devolution of increasing privatisation of the rental market.

Mhairi Love looks at the case for asset based community development in the North-East of Glasgow through mapping derelict and vacant sites in the area and looking at how the Community Empowerment Act could be utilised.

Malcolm Fraser outlines a vision for housing based on reinvigorating town centres and creating good quality of life for all.

This paper looks at the economics of shale gas extraction (“fracking”) and makes the case for Scotland to pre-emptively ban the practice.

Laying the foundations for a safe and secure banking sector by creating a Scottish National Investment Bank, a not-for-profit “People’s Bank” to deliver retail banking services and a network of community owned bank branches to ensure access to financial support.

Common Weal and Living Rent’s five key reforms of the private rented sector.

This paper outlines a radically different approach to housing policy. It also looks at immediate improvements that will be steps on the way to more fundamental transformation.

A Common Weal approach to urban regeneration.