Category: Blog
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Funding!
We’re excited to announce that we have been awarded funding from the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority’s Brownfield Housing Fund. This will allow us to engage consultants to assist in development cost appraisal modelling, early feasibility studies on proposed sites, and further organisational capacity building. It’s been a busy few months behind the scenes since
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Meet the Steering Group pt.2
Our first film, put together by University of Sheffield students Athena and Jingrou is ready with a link to view here. We asked them to interview some of our steering group about why they’d got involved and what they hoped the CLT can achieve.
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Meet the Steering Group!
Sheffield CLT has recently hosted two students as part of the University’s Workplace Insights scheme. These paid internships allowed two undergraduate students (Jingrou, studying Digital Media & Society, and Athena, a Department of Urban Studies and Planning student) to work with us on researching policy and statistics, as well as starting to interview some of
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March Update!
There’s been a lot going on behind the scenes recently. We’ve submitted the second stage of a bid to the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority’s Brownfield Housing Fund, and are hoping to start site shortlisting and feasibility work on city centre sites should this be successful, alongside getting support from the Confederation of Co-operative Housing
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Options Workshop
Members of the CLT, along with invited guests from Sheffield City Council and South Yorkshire Housing Association met, on the 31st January to work through their strategic business case bid to the SYMCA’s Brownfield Housing Fund. With input from SQW economic and social development consultants we worked through scenarios that would allow us to meet
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Strategic Priorities Workshop
Members of the Sheffield CLT met on the 10th of Jan for the first of two facilitated workshops to discuss priorities and structures. The session was facilitated by Blase Lambert of the Confederation of Co-operative Housing using their Wayshaper toolkit, a card-based decision making tool that allows groups “to explore the needs and preferences of
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