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• Community Land Trusts
• Community Led Development

Tom Warder
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Content

• Rural Housing and CLTs
• Local national case studies
• Added value of CLTs
• The Sussex CLT Umbrella Project

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Barcombe resident

• This village is dying (lack of people living
  in the village is killing off our services and
  community) I would like my children to stay and
  bring up their own family in the village but if
  things stay as they are this dream will never
  happen. To the Parish Council and others, PLEASE
  START LISTENING TO US, WE WANT THIS VILLAGE TO
  GROW FOR US AND FUTURE GENERATIONS!

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Mathew Taylor review Living , Working Countryside

• If we fail to build the affordable homes to
  enable the people who work in the countryside to
  live there we risk turning our villages into
  gated communities of wealthy commuters and the
  retired.

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What is a Community Land Trust?

• A non profit community based organisation that
  develops housing or other assets at permanently
  affordable levels for long term community benefit
• Legal definition in the Housing and Regeneration
  Act 2008
• Origins Long history of community ownership /
  management of assets
• 175 in UK currently, 7 enabling organisations,
  560 homes and 2443 homes are in the pipeline.

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CLT key defining features

• Community owned and controlled
• Open and democratic structure
• Permanently affordable homes or other assets
• Not for profit
• Long term stewardship

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CLT two routes to delivery

• Hands on CLT
• CLT leads, develops carries risk
• (mitigated via legals and professionals)
• CLT owns assets income
• Lease based CLT
• CLT leases site to Housing Association. HA
  develops carries risk
• Little work for CLT
• HA gets income (share with CLT?)

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Lyvennet Community TrustCrosby Ravensworth
10 rented homes 2 shared ownership 7 self build
plots
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Lyvennet Community Trust
Photo Cumberland Westmorland Herald
Pub bought renovated with community share issue
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Community Land Trust self build St Minver,
Cornwall

• All shared ownership
• No Housing Grant
• 85,000 build cost (simple design)
• Modest subsidy North Cornwall DC
• Managed self build - On time on budget

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Lilac housing co-op, Leeds
Community of interest various incomes Pooling
resources Council site Sustainable Straw bale
construction Communal buildings Affordable Mutual
home ownership
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Keswick CLT (Cumbria NP)

• 5 homes for rent _at_ 500 per month
• 5 shared ownership homes _at_ 50 of 265K
• 1 outright sale with local occupancy restriction
• Some grant funding (HCA) and Community shares
• Professional team employed by the CLT Architect,
  Quantity Surveyor Housing Association

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2013 1.4m 11 home scheme opens
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Keswick CLT
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2015 on site with 22 more homes plus town center
conversion to 4 flats
Lay people now experts
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Activists expertise resources RESULTS

• Small group decided to act
• Community mandate
• CLT Officer project support
• Vicar as champion re site
• Town Council Local Authority backing
• CLT Network National Park set up grant
• Homes Communities Agency advice
• Impact Housing Association support
• Tendered for strong professional team
• Local Building Society support

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Other models

• External project management
• Community make decisions / own assets
• CLT Officer or HA takes on workload
• Housing Association lease arrangement
• Community secures local nominations
• HA derives rental income
• Informed choice important capacity v benefits

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Buying from the CLT was the only form of
ownership we could afford. The size, quality and
affordability has completely changed our lives
for the better. Gary and Lucie Wilson, Keswick
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Why CLTs?

• Community confidence support
• Priority for local people
• Improve affordability space standards
• Diversity design build methods, community
  space, self build, training, trading
• Community income generation
• Local Planning Authority confidence and support
• Commercially attractive
• Avoid extension of Right to Buy! (all housing
  association properties) Housing and Planning
  Bill 2016

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Sussex CLTs

• Slaugham Parish CLT
• Angmering CLT
• Kirdford CLT
• Hastings CLT
• Lewes CLT
• All engaged in acquiring sites for local needs
  affordable housing workspace.
• Another dozen emerging CLT groups, many
  undertaking neighbourhood planning.

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Typical steps

• Community support
• Steering group / CLT Umbrella support / start-up
  funding
• Local Authority support
• Housing need / willing landowner / indicative
  planning
• Business plan / pre-development funding / option
  to buy
• Tender for Housing Association project support
• Tender architect / QS surveys, design, planning
• Secure development finance housing grant
• Tender build contract / construct / occupy

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Funding

• Start up grants from
• The CLT Network, District Councils and the HCA
• Pre-development loans grants from
• The CLT Network, HCA, Locality LAs
• Capital Grant and finance from
• The HCA, LA lenders
• Launch of new 60m Community Housing Fund
• http//www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve
  nts/news

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Why promote CLTs?

• The UK builds the smallest
• most expensive new homes in Europe.
• Sir Bob Kerslake
• Choice empowerment
• Community centred
• Local priority
• Attention to affordability
• Perpetuity
• Diversity - community buildings, self build
• Income generation community services
• local support

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CLTs add value by

• Being locally-controlled / democratically
  accountable
• Being flexible to meet local priorities
• Creating community support
• Providing locally affordable homes
• Delivering actions from community / neighbourhood
  plans
• Closer community landowner involvement
• Generating re-investment for the community
• Enabling the long term stewardship of community
  assets

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Resources Join the CLT Network
Catherine Harrington, Gemma Tighe www.communityla
ndtrusts.org.uk Catherine.harrington_at_housing.org.
uk Tel. [phone] Case study visits CLT
Handbook Set-up grants Legal toolkit Insurance
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Sussex CLT Umbrella Support

• Robust business planning and feasibility
• Housing tenure issues
• Identify project finance.
• Tendering
• Access funding, grants loans
• Advise on company forms.
• Link to legal experts and project partners.
• Guidance throughout
• Contact Tom.warder_at_ruralsussex.org.uk
• 01273 407 302

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SDNPA Local Plan

• The SDNP are developing policies to require
  excellent sustainability credentials and
  stipulates that proposals
• Engage with vernacular building cultures
  relating to natural, local materials and local
  craftsmanship
• Be imaginative in responding to local culture,
  character and distinctiveness whilst enhancing
  the sustainability of proposals.
• Development will be encouraged to demonstrate
  innovative approaches and solutions to show the
  National Park as an exemplar for sustainable
  development.
• How?...