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Publication - Research and analysis

Scotland's Fourth Land Use Strategy: supporting evidence pack

Published
18 March 2026
From
Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Land Reform and Islands, +15 more … Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government, Cabinet Secretary for Housing, Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Director for Planning, Architecture and Regeneration, Director of Agriculture and Rural Economy, Director of Environment and Forestry, Director of Local Government and Housing, Director of Marine, Director of Offshore Wind, Director-General Economy, Director-General Net Zero, Minister for Agriculture and Connectivity, Permanent Secretary
Directorate
Agriculture and Rural Economy Directorate, +6 more … Energy and Climate Change Directorate, Environment and Forestry Directorate, Jobs and Wellbeing Economy Directorate, Planning, Architecture and Regeneration Directorate, Marine Directorate, Offshore Wind Directorate
Topic
Building, planning and design, Economy, Energy, +5 more … Environment and climate change, Farming and rural, Housing, Transport, Work and skills
ISBN
9781806439652

The evidence pack to support Scotland’s Fourth Land Use Strategy. It draws on published materials to provide a baseline understanding of land in Scotland, and aims to increase awareness of the interplay between landscape, land use and ecosystem services.

View supporting documents Supporting documents

5 Methods

5.1 Storymap

Colleagues at the James Hutton Institute in the Land Use Transformations project (JHI-C3-1) funded by Scottish Government’s 2022-2027 ENRA Strategic Research Programme have produced an accompanying storymap to this document. This storymap allows users to view and compare map products to one another, along with more detail on the content of some maps.

5.2 Shetland

In the storymap and in this evidence pack, several maps do not show Shetland in its true geographic location, as required by the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018. This is in order to maximise the view of Scotland’s, and Shetland’s, land, which is the focus of this evidence pack. Showing Shetland in its true geographic position for each map would result in a loss of around 40% of the detail on the land. Figure 24 shows Shetland in its true geographic location; other maps should be viewed with the recognition of Shetland’s true geography.

Figure 24: Shetland’s Location Relative to the Scottish Mainland
A map of Scotland showing Shetland in it's true geographic location for the purposes of the Islands (Scotland) Act 2018.

Contact

Email: lus4@gov.scot

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