Windsor Ascot & Maidenhead Community Land Trust. Creating co-operative communities with more truly affordable, sustainable homes and other community assets.
A BIG thank you to Fiona Brown and Grant Appleton from Hook Norton CLT today for an inspiring visit to their award winning development in the Cotswolds… so many lessons to learn for us.
Did you know that Windsor, Ascot And Maidenhead Community Land Trust are registered on @easyuk? This means you can raise free donations for them when you shop online! Over 8,000 retailers will make a donation on your behalf when you shop: join.easyfundraising.org.uk/…
More Friday inspiration😃
Read our case study of Three Seas Cornwall 🏘️
Raising community shares to make coastal homes affordable.
“It’s hard to take an old stone house and turn it into an eco-home – but it can be done"
uk.coop/case-studies/three-s…
We're excited by a proposed Community Right to Buy - but we need to make sure that impactful CLTs (like @hastingscommons and @CVCLT1) creating new community places & community led affordable homes don't miss out
@tom_chance shares the terms we need to see communitylandtrusts.org.uk/n…
And over in our rural housing partnerships session - sponsored by @AsterGroupUK - @AlisonWardx is talking through Middlemarch CLH replicable model of rural CLT-housing association partnerships - contributing to a South West boom in CLT homes #buildingwithcommunities
What do we need from the new gov to see CLTs thriving? @AlisonWardx and Hannah from @AsterGroupUK say reinstate the Community Housing Fund, Rich Pillar says create policy to respond to real housing need within a community & develop WITH local authorities #BuildingwithCommunities
Great to see the excellent speakers here today at the Community Land Trust Network #BuildingwithCommunities Conference. So much expertise in the room. Whoever makes the new government should partner the CLT movement and make this mainstream.
"It’s our idea of what a sustainable neighbourhood looks like,” says Anurag Verma, who chairs @RUSSLewisham, “Much more than just being affordable, it’s about the idea of agency – having control over where you live". Welcome to @CommLandTruststheguardian.com/artanddesign…
If you want to find out what your Clewer & Dedworth East councillors did in April then you can read it here - please don't forget to contact us if you find any issues in our ward as we are here to help you. Thanks
theboroughfirst.org/april-re…
"I believe that we as a society will all be better off if more of our assets are owned by the community. Selling this house to the CLT is one small step in that direction that was within my power to take." Affordable, rented, energy efficient, community owned & coming to Hebden.
CLT-owned homes are exempt from the Right to Buy and Right to Shared Ownership, and of they are the freeholder can also exempt homes from the Right to Acquire and (soon) leasehold enfranchisement. Inc where an RP/council is landlord.
What if we designed, sourced and built our homes with homegrown materials and resources?
We're very excited to be launching our 'Homegrown Homes for People and Planet' report, supported by the @ForestryComm.
... Coming Weds pm on wecanmake.org 👀
#HomegrownHomes
This is a truly stupid tragedy.
If they had vested the land into a Community Land Trust with the council operating the homes, they would have been protected. One to consider...
Goldsmith Street, Norwich - winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2019, 100 percent social housing, Passivhaus -and now being privatised by Right to Buy. Such a devastating indictment of that policy.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no…
Our new manifesto proposes policies to make community led homes account for at least 5% of housing development in the UK in the next 5 years - 15k homes a year and potentially generating £1bn community wealth.
Read more about our manifesto in @PBC_Today:
pbctoday.co.uk/news/planning…
We've launched our manifesto with 10 policy proposals to support community led developments and land stewardship projects to meet the housing and environmental crises head on.
Read all about it and watch the launch event with 5 brilliant sector speakers:
communitylandtrusts.org.uk/n…