Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 has been established to empower communities by allowing new rights and control over local assets and services, and strengthening voices in decisions that matter to them. Key elements of the Act allow communities to: Make requests to Public Bodies to own or lease land or buildings they feel they could make better use of (Community Asset Transfers and Community Right to Buy) Become involved in improving or changing a service (Participation requests) If you are a community body that wishes to submit either a participation request or community asset transfer request, please follow links to read about NHS Lothian’s processes: Community Asset Transfers Requests and Right to Buy Participation Requests NHS Lothian publishes an annual report on activities covered under the Community Empowerment Act: Community Empowerment Annual Report 2024-25
