Islanders hope for community ownership making progress

Campaigners have managed to agree a price for purchasing the Bays of Harris Estate.

Islanders’ longstanding hopes for community ownership of a huge area of land on Harris are making progress.

Campaigners have managed to agree a price for purchasing the Bays of Harris Estate from its current private landowner.

Around 700 people live in the Bays area – making it one of the largest estates in the Western Isles still in private hands.

If funding is secured, local people could be in control there within months.

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