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The Landewednack Housing Working Party is working with Cornwall Community Land Trust on a project to deliver up to 9 affordable homes on land owned by the Parish Council. As well as undertaking professional site surveys and preparing a project design, Cornwall CLT is supporting the local community in undertaking a Housing Needs Survey. This…

Check out new funding opportunities for local communities starting out on new community-led housing projects. Money is available to help with the early stages.  A link to a range of funding opportunities is available through Cornwall Council’s Good Growth Fund and can be found on its website. Funding from £2,000 to up to £25,000 can…

Cornwall Community Land Trust celebrates another successful year – a great celebration of the opening of the Ruan Minor CLT rented homes project at Easter and building a very strong pipeline of 20 projects and six planning applications which will be determined in 2023. Though the Newlyn Housing Working Party experienced a disappointing set-back in…

Become a Cornwall Community Land Trust Member/Supporter Cornwall CLT has been successfully working with communities across Cornwall and on the Scillies to provide homes for locals forever for the last 15 years. It is one of the most successful CLTs in the UK – delivering nearly 300 homes across 27 projects. We’re working with local…

Gwennap We are delighted to announce that working with our excellent design team of consultants, we have just completed and submitted a planning application for ten new 100% affordable homes in the Parish of Gwennap – 7 for rent and 3 for Shared Ownership sale.  A full update on the scheme will be available on…

Cornwall Community Land Trust and supporters celebrated the work of its founding Director Alan Fox and offered a richly rewarded and warm appreciation for his efforts and achievements for those in housing need at his long-overdue retirement party recently. Alan, formerly Senior Housing Officer at Penwith District Council (PDC) and then Penwith Housing Association (PHA),…

This year’s AGM will mark some big changes to the Board of Cornwall CLT. We will bid a fond farewell to three members who have dedicated many years and volunteer time to the work of our charity. Our Chair, Matt Ward, will stand down after 4 years in the chair and 7 years on the…

A community group which failed to secure wider support for its affordable homes project is warning that opposition to homes that locals need have consequences. This is after the Headteacher of the local school circulated a letter to parents that it would have to cut one teacher post because local families could no longer live…

The Government has just announced its decision to discontinue the current programme of the successful Community Housing Fund (CHF) which recently distributed £4 million to community-led housing projects around the country, including to many groups in Cornwall. Cornwall CLT and other CLTs around the country had been lobbying for a continuation of the CHF, as…

How to Build Affordable Homes and Combat the Climate Emergency 27th April 2022 Cornish communities can and are helping to alleviate the housing emergency and in a sustainable and cost-effective way. Cornwall Community Land Trust’s recent Webinar, held on 27th April, was the latest in a series of events which provide practical support to communities…