As urban spaces like Mount Florida Bowling Club are bought to build private rentals, communities lose access to green spaces. Community Right to Buy is one way communities can reimagine belonging in urban spaces through community ownership. But one writer's research highlights deeper concerns of how the land reform movement leaves some communities feeling they don’t even have the right to be in public spaces.

The Bowling Green Together, a community group set up to protect The Pollokshields Bowling Green, received funding from The National Lottery Community Fund after securing the lease for the space over the summer. The group are overjoyed at the news following a period of uncertainty.

The transfer of assets such as buildings from the council to community ownership is often spoken about as a neat solution to an ongoing problem, but the process is much more complex than that. Alex Wilde, looks into the case of the Govanhill Baths and whether community ownership represents greater justice for a community.