Category: Blog
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(Re)Launch Event
SCLT held a public launch event on Saturday the 12th November 2022, as part of the Festival of Social Science. The day kicked off with a panel discussion between three invited speakers: Dr Tom Archer of CRESA and Sheffield Hallam University; Sarah Ernst of Architype and Darren French, Chair of Heart of Hastings CLT and
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Sheffield CLT in The Star
Sheffield Community Land Trust Sheffield CLT was recently featured in local newspaper The Star, with founding members Cristina and Rupert speaking about the importance of including local citizens in the development process rather than leaving it to profit-seeking companies to shape the city. “Are we going to be creating real neighbourhoods or just boxes, with
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Housing Stock Mapping
Based on the data from Sheffield City Council, we produced the following map showing the existing housing stock owned by the council. Sheffield City Council Housing Stock The base map uses are the housing market areas identified by the Sheffield City Council, with the city centre area highlighted in green. In the Housing and Land
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MAUD Exhibition: Possibilities for a CLT in Sheffield
In May 2017, the MAUD students from Sheffield University successfully held a public exhibition showing the possibilities of Community Land Trusts in Sheffield. The students formed as 12 groups, together with Sheffield CLT, have studied several under-used central sites throughout Sheffield, including Park Hill, Castlegate, and Kelham Island. The research was conducted for 6 weeks to
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Exploring Community-Led Housing in Liverpool, London, Amsterdam, Berlin and Barcelona
Sheffield Community Land Trust In this blog two Urban Studies and Planning Masters’s Students from the University of Sheffield explore Community Land Trusts and Co-housing Schemes in Liverpool, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, and Barcelona. The blog features a write-up on each project visited by Karen and Cara and reflects on how these schemes have come about;
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Application for Stage 1 funding from the National CLT Network Approved!
We are very excited to announce that our application for Stage 1 funding from the National CLT Network has been approved. This will give us access to support from a specialist CLT Technical Advisor on how to take the Sheffield CLT forward. Details on the meeting with the advisor will follow soon. All members
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