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Cornwall CLT’s Fourth CLH Seminar – Wednesday 20th October 2021 10.00-14.30 Our forthcoming Seminar on 20th October will focus on the challenging theme of Land and Property Acquisition.  We will be joined by colleagues from Cornwall Council and some of the partners who are helping us with affordable sites for community-led projects for local need,…

We are delighted to confirm that in September six tenants with strong connections with the locality will be taking up residence in the homes at Ruan Minor. This project is the product of a successful partnership between Grade Ruan Community Land Trust and Cornwall CLT.  Built by Cathedral Builders, the homes meet CCLT’s emphasis on…

CCLT has been hosting the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly CLH (Community-Led Homes) Enabling Hub with just one year’s funding since 1st April 2020.  Hub funding has enabled CCLT to extend the support it can offer to CLH projects – not only to Community Land Trusts, but how it can do more to support cohousing,…

Meeting the challenge – doing Community-led Homes (CLH) when communities cannot commune… Though it’s not easy to do community-led homes projects when communities cannot meet, most projects have been able to make steady progress, even if at a pace a little slower than hoped. Thanks to our wonderful frontline key workers we’ve used the postal…

As a challenging year comes to a close we’d like to thank all of our partners, supporters and friends this Christmas and wish you the happiest and safest of Christmases and the very best for 2021. The end of this year is a particularly busy time for us. We currently have 3 public consultations ongoing…

To assist in lobbying the government for the extension of the Community Housing Fund, the National Community Land Trust Network commissioned research assessing the value for money of community-led housing in England, funded by Power to Change and the Nationwide Foundation and conducted independently by Capital Economics. The research was launched online on 15th September 2020 to an…

We were delighted with the response to our Community-led Housing Seminar “Affordable Homes?  held on 21st October – a wide variety of people interested in community-led housing joined us from all over Cornwall and some excellent national speakers who shared both their expertise and experiences. If you missed it or just want to listen to…

Affordable homes for locals, Communities can do it for themselves, Ruan Minor shows the way. Cornwall’s premier community-led charitable housing trust – Cornwall Community Land Trust – praised the community of Ruan Minor this week as they lead Cornwall’s communities into a new era of projects which provide genuine affordable homes for locals forever. Six affordable homes…

Have the economic consequences of the Covid pandemic helpfully (or unhelpfully) reset the dial for those with the greatest unmet housing needs? Many expected the anticipated economic downturn could result in a housing market slump which could potentially generate a perverse improved opportunity to meet unmet housing need. However, as autumn approaches there appear to…