1. Community Led Housing & the Sussex Community Housing Hub
Tom Warder & Graham Maunders

2. Community led Housing & the Sussex Community Housing Hub
What is Community Led Housing
Community Land Trusts
Added value
Community Housing Fund
The Sussex ‘Hub’
How and why Local Authorities support CLH
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3. From RHE to HUB 2007 – 2013: Rural Housing Enabling Service
- 15 schemes, 250 homes / 2010: “affordable”rents?
2014 – 2017: Sussex Community Land Trust Project
Pipeline of 12 CLT projects
2016 / 17: Community Housing Fund
- 5 year, £300m programme to support Community Led Housing- £4.2m in Sussex
- “build collaboration, skills and supply chains at a local level to promote the sustainability of this approach...” (DCLG letter to Local Authorities)
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4. What is Community Led Housing?
1 – Community integrally involved throughout the process.
2 - Presumption in favour of a long-term role for the community
3 – Benefits to the community are defined and protected in perpetuity.

5. CLH is not… Just a more intensive engagement and consultation.
A housing association scheme with local council or community backing.
Completely different to a conventional housing development process.
Dependent on free land or unusual subsidy.
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6. Approaches to CLH Cohousing Community Land Trusts Cooperatives
Cohousing communities are created and run by their residents. Each household has a self-contained, private home but residents come together to manage their community and share activities. Cohousing is a way of combating the alienation and isolation many experience today, recreating the neighbourly support of the past.
Cohousing
Community Land Trusts
Cooperatives
Self/custom build
Self-help

7. Approaches to CLH Cohousing Community Land Trusts Cooperatives
Community Land Trusts (CLTs) enable ordinary people to develop and manage homes as well as other assets important to that community, like community enterprises, food growing or workspaces. The CLT’s main task is to make sure these homes are genuinely affordable, based on what people actually earn in their area, not just for now but for every future occupier.
Cohousing
Community Land Trusts
Cooperatives
Self/custom build
Self-help

8. Approaches to CLH Cohousing Community Land Trusts Cooperatives
Cooperative and mutual housing has a community membership comprising the residents and sometimes other local community members. They democratically control the housing organisation which can result in benefits for members such as a better service and new skills.
Cohousing
Community Land Trusts
Cooperatives
Self/custom build
Self-help

9. Approaches to CLH Cohousing Community Land Trusts Cooperatives
All local authorities have a duty to maintain a register of individuals and groups interested in building their own homes, and to provide enough permissioned plots to meet that demand. Forming people into CLH groups can help to organise and develop their projects.
Cohousing
Community Land Trusts
Cooperatives
Self/custom build
Self-help

10. 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
225 in UK currently, 4 enabling organisations
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11. 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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12. 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

13. Lyvennet Community Trust Crosby Ravensworth
10 rented homes 2 shared ownership
7 self build plots

14. Lyvennet Community Trust
Photo Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
Pub bought & renovated with
community share issue

15. Keswick CLT 5 homes for rent @ £500 per month for a 3 bed house
5 shared ownership 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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16. “Buying from the CLT was the only form of ownership we could afford
“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

17. 2015 on site with 22 more homes plus town center conversion to 4 flats
Lay people now experts

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19. Sussex CLH schemes 2014: est. Sussex Community Land Trust Project;
Angmering CLT – 12 homes
Ford CLT (1500 new homes)
Icklesham CLT – 15 homes
Lewes CLT – 15 home Self-finish scheme
Herstmonceux CLT, Alfriston CLT & Chiddingly CLT
Co-Housing projects: Eastbourne & Hastings
Community Self Build Project in Burgess Hill
Herstmonceux CLT, Alfriston CLT & Chiddingly CLT
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20. Angmering CLT concept note
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21. Angmering CLT-Mayflower Way
Angmering CLT Consultation event
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22. Community Led Housing – added value / USP
Local control - allocations assured - permanence
Creating community support
Locally affordable
Income generating & re-investment
Control over location & design
Delivering actions from neighbourhood plans
Versatility - housing, social enterprise - Innovation
Closer community & landowner involvement
Enabling the long term stewardship of community assets
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24. Community-led housing is a government priority (2018)
£240m confirmed for 2018 – 2021 (Nov. 2017)
“Together with you I want to make the idea of communities building the homes they need not a radical departure, but an everyday reality”
“To empower more communities...delivering these houses is an overriding priority for this government”
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25. Community Housing Fund - Objectives
“deliver affordable housing units of mixed tenure...”
“build collaboration, skills and supply chains at a local level to promote the sustainability of this approach...”
“capital investment, technical support and revenue to be provided to make more schemes viable and significantly increase community groups’ current delivery pipelines...”
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26. Local / regional / national programme
Using the CHF – a legacy
Local / regional / national programme

27. Sussex Community Housing Hub - Supported by Local Authorities in Sussex

28. The Hub services & support
Robust business planning and feasibility
Technical assistance - finance & development issues
Access funding, grants & loans
Advise on company forms.
Link to legal experts and project partners.
Enabling groups to make informed choices
Support CLTs, Co-housing, Self-build, Coops etc.
Guidance throughout
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29. Website
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31. Why local authorities support CLH
Improving housing supply and providing permanently affordable housing
Supporting regeneration and returning empty homes to use
Empowering communities so they come self-sufficient, cohesive, resilient and sustainable
Involving residents in addressing housing need
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32. How local authorities enable or support Community-Led Housing
Leadership (policy – e.g. East Cambs. DC)
A policy environment supportive of CLH (e.g: Arun DC Housing Strategy)
Land made available through planning policy
Council assets provided through sale or asset transfer (resources)
Funding by local authorities
Enabling support
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