Category: Sheffield CLT
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
Blog Series: Naked House CLT, London
Naked House’ is a non-profit London-bred solution to unaffordable housing. The concept ensures affordability through minimalism; the Naked House is essentially a well designed ‘shell’ structure built from durable, low cost materials without any of the cost-adding finishings that typically come with off -the-shelf ‘affordable’ housing making them unnecessarily expensive. Under this model the
-
Blog Series: East London CLT – St Clement’s Hospital
St Clement’s Hospital is London’s first CLT site. The project will provide 252 new homes, 35% of which will be genuinely affordable homes and will include 58 for ‘social rent’ and 23 community land trust homes priced according to local wages. The project intends for these homes to be built sustainably, with good access to
Sheffield Community Land Trust 