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Really fantastic (paid!) part time job opportunity at Bristol Community Land Trust still open for applications! Anyone: - highly organised - skilled at growing relationships - looking to join a team making a real impact on our housing crisis, growing community wealth and community power can find out more below ↓↓↓↓

New report now live! This important new report "Community Led Housing For All" details how community-led could help tackle racial inequalities in housing AND how we can address barriers to CLTs and other CLH for Black and minority ethnic communities. Key findings: - Community led housing is a way for communities experiencing racial inequality to influence planning and development processes - Awareness of community led housing with communities experiencing racial inequality is low, leading to under-representation in leadership roles - The sector needs to improve data collection to provide a quantitative understanding of representation - The potential for proactive engagement and more inclusive decision-making to ensure funding and delivery models are shaped by lived experience - The potential and benefits of greater peer-to-peer support - The need for long-term funding for the sector Read the report here: https://lnkd.in/d6TiPRNc As co-funders alongside Nationwide Foundation, Power to Change and The Tudor Trust, we're incredibly grateful to researchers Claude Hendrickson MBE, Henri Baptiste, Tom Moore, and Yael Arbell, as well as all of the interviewees who shared their experiences to help shape this report and its recommendations. Their work and contributions offers key guidance as we all take our next steps to making community-led housing a more inclusive sector and a better route to housing equality.

This new report just launched by New Local is a must read. It dives into a vision for a new and better system of development in England which integrates community autonomy into decision making - featuring Community Land Trusts as one community ownership model that should be used as a key element of a community driven approach to regeneration. We were delighted to see East Marsh United and Hastings Commons (among others) spotlighted as examples of community led regenerations projects - both projects that put on display how communities can lead the way in bringing our declining high streets back to life. #CLTs #CommunityLedHousing #CommunityDevelopment #CommunityLandTrusts #Placemaking

This is going to be a really great session with our partners Wrigleys Solicitors for anyone looking into community ownership of land for nature recovery. Our CEO Tom Chance will be speaking alongside Middle Marches Community Land Trust, one of the best examples of a Community Land Trust protecting nature and biodiversity in England. Register to join the FREE webinar here: https://lnkd.in/emPF2qay

New research by The Housing Forum suggests that the cost of building homes is higher than house prices in 1 in 5 areas, and that's only partially accounting for 'abnormal' costs like brownfield remediation and remote rural locations. I contributed some data on the latter with input from Steve Watson and Karl Hine, also drawing on our Community Land Trust Network research on higher planning costs for small schemes. So much of the discourse around planning & housebuilding is based on high value areas in London and the South East. Even there, viability can be a challenge on small/brownfield/rural schemes. But across much of the country there simply isn't much value left in the land once you deduct the costs of planning and building a home. In around 60 local authority areas it's uneconomic to build homes even on free land. Recent inflation has obviously made this much worse. Homes England's grants policy also needs to reflect these realities, otherwise grants will be skewed towards the most viable markets leaving rural areas in particular short of affordable housing. Read the full paper: https://lnkd.in/eE7kemBf cc Charles Dugdale Anna Clarke Tom Archer Gary Hartin Rose Grayston Jo Lavis Martin Collett

A well crafted Community Right to Buy could enable communities to revitalise and take control of Asssets of Community Value to develop sustainable and thriving places. But there are several key considerations to make sure that this would truly benefit CLTs.* In this article for Power to Change, our CEO, Tom Chance, dives into what needs to be considered around the valuation of Assets of Community Value to make sure communities and owners get a fair price. Dive in here: https://lnkd.in/ehB4cidt *See Tom's proposals as well as risks and examples from CLTs here: https://lnkd.in/eje3pTnB

Congratulations to our trustee Sonia, and a director of L8 Matters CLT, on being named an honorary fellow of Liverpool John Moores University!

Congratulations to the team Oxfordshire Community Land Trust on being awarded this £3,000 funding from the Landsec Futures Community Grants programme! CLTs in parts of London, Leeds, Manchester, Salford, Portsmouth, Oxford, Cardiff, Greenhithe and Braintree looking for funding to support local communities to make future-forward decisions should take a look at this fund today: https://lnkd.in/dFkjZ3ak

We have now made our submission to the National Planning Policy Framework Consultation, calling for reforms around RP status requirements, Community Led Exception Site guidelines, and site allocations. These changes would support CLTs to deliver more homes and other projects. Take a look at our response here: https://lnkd.in/exjHGqsu There's still time to make a submission before the deadline of 11:45pm tonight so please feel free to make your own submissions based on our responses or write to endorse our response. We also welcome the government's proposed Brownfield Passports (read more here: https://lnkd.in/e53bhYv6) which follows directly from some of our points in the NPPF consultation around risk, cost and uncertainty of developing small sites. We’ll be in touch with our members soon to gather input, which we’ll feed into the government.

Following a review we've conducted of the Government's Community Housing Fund (CHF), the findings highlight the positive impact it had in driving affordable community led housing projects across England. Key highlights include: > Over 4,200 homes developed or in the pipeline, with 913 already built or under construction. 90% of these homes are affordable, many in areas where traditional developers struggle to build. > Projects funded through the CHF were more likely to incorporate innovative housing models, like Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) and self or custom-build options. > An impressive success rate, with only 5% of projects failing and a significant return on public investment—£2.70 of value for every £1 spent. This review demonstrates the importance of community led development and the role it can play to increase social housebuilding and diversify the housebuilding industry. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eGK3NXep #AffordableHousing #CommunityLandTrusts #CommunityLedHousing #HousingInnovation #SocialHousing #CommunityLedDevelopment #Housing