Part 8 of the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 aims to "increase transparency about Common Good assets and community involvement in decisions taken about their identification, use and disposal".
The Act places new duties on the council in relation to Common Good property:
- S.102 - places a duty on the council to establish and maintain, after consultation, a register of property which is held by it as part of the Common Good.
- S.104 - imposes the requirement for public consultation before the disposal or change of use of a common good property.
Statutory guidance published by the Scottish Government sets out the procedure for establishing the register, and for subsequent consultations on the use of disposal of common good land.
The register may change over time, where further research identifies other properties we consider to be common good, or if property is determined by a court to be common good. We may remove property from the list if it is no longer considered to be common good.
Public Consultation on the register took place in May 2024, the comments received as part of this consultation can be found within the related documents below, alongside a copy of the current register.
If you wish to comment on the register, then you can do so by either :
Email at: CommonGoodRegister@aberdeencity.gov.uk
or
Writing to us at: Common Good Asset Register, Corporate Landlord, Resources, Marischal College, Broad Street, Aberdeen, AB10 1AB.
We will publish all comments, in line with our data protection policy. We will also publish our response to the comments.