Category: Sheffield CLT
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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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Call for involvement: join Sheffield CLT!
As we are moving forward, we will be soon applying for the support offered by the CLT Network and to other grants available for projects aiming to deliver affordable houses to the community. In order to start this journey we will need to have a strong steering committee to start taking decisions, negotiate with the
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Sheffield CLT joined the National CLT Network
A further step in the realization of the Sheffield CLT: we have recently joined the National CLT Network as a Stat Up affiliate. By joining the Network, we are supporting its lobbying and campaigning to have the needs of CLTs heard by our Government, we will be able to share knowledge and experience, so crucial
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Group #5 – 5 steps towards women-led urban development
With this projects students’ look at Wicker multicultural environment and look at the communities’ women to reinterpret their role and use of public spaces. They propose workshops, collective cooking, and playground activities to gather women to public spaces. The second step would be to gather funding towards more permanent structures and long-term projects like growing
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Group #4 – Community led Housing in Wicker
a- The group first analysed the local situation, highlighting the issues and potentials and then designed a tailored project that in the short term would see the development of a community center, a riverside coffee and a communal kitchen. The plan would later include affordable school, a community park and a housing area. b- With
Sheffield Community Land Trust 