Category: clt
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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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Blog Series: UK’s Urban Community Land Trusts.
An Introduction: Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are non-profit organisations established by communities to provide genuinely and permanently affordable, community-controlled housing and other assets such as social enterprises, bakeries and gardens; work or meeting spaces; and green spaces. CLTs provide an important social good in the context of and soaring property and private rental prices which are
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Sheffield CLT Working Group – Join Us!
The Sheffield CLT is a project aimed at working with local residents to turn vacant buildings and plots in the city into genuinely affordable housing for the Sheffield community. If being part of this project interests you or if you would like to learn more about social-enterprise housing models for Sheffield bring your lunch and
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Images from urban installations on 17/05/16
Some snaphots of installations by students of MA in Urban Design at the Sheffield School of Architecture presenting their ideas of possible community led development approaches for Sheffield CLT in Sheffield city centre on 17th May 2016.
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