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Community Led Housing & the Sussex Community Housing Hub

Community Led Housing & the Sussex Community Housing Hub. Tom Warder & Graham Maunders. Community led Housing & the Sussex Community Housing Hub. What is Community Led Housing Community Land Trusts A dded value Community Housing Fund The Sussex ‘Hub’

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Community Led Housing & the Sussex Community Housing Hub

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  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

  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)

  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.

  6. Approaches to CLH 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 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 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 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

  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

  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 TrustCrosby 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 homes @ 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

  16. “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

  18. 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

  19. Angmering CLT-Mayflower Way

  20. 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

  21. 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”

  22. 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...”

  23. Using the CHF – a legacy Local / regional / national programme

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

  25. 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

  26. Website

  27. 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

  28. 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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