From play parks and community centres to film sets, Scottish communities are using government buyout powers to revitalise derelict properties
Benny Corkill is four years old and loves his plastic binoculars. He uses them to hunt insects among the wood chips, vegetable beds and fruit trees crowding Granton community garden in north-west Edinburgh.
Under the shadow of nearby tenements, Benny is learning to prune, build fires and wrestle logs into forts, boosted by toasted marshmallows. “My boys love coming here,” said Reka, his mother. “They know they can ask questions; they can be silly here, as well. It’s a safe place for them and good for me too: here I can let them run loose.”
