Community Led Housing Our experience to date Slide 2 More Homes
More Choice -4,500 homes -200 new homes planned -Mixed tenure
-Flexible solutions Working for Sustainable Communities -Ethically
run corporate environmental ambitions -Charitable status helping
communities thrive not just survive CORPORATE PLAN OBJECTIVES Slide
3 National - 228 homes - Mixture of providers (12) - 25 million
funding pot - 4.9 million allocated Midlands - 107 homes - 3 main
partners Longhurst Group Westleigh Developments Shropshire Housing
Our Approach -Marches CLT partnership -31% of national funding -68
new homes across the Marches -Returning value to communities
-Compliments neighbourhood planning -1,305,600 allocation
ALLOCATION CONTEXT Slide 4 What is Community Led? Communities can
collectively own, develop and/or manage their own land and
development Slide 5 Barriers ? Complexity of development
Availability of funding Reducing grant per unit Access to expertise
Risk adverse approaches Slide 6 Our Offer Marches Community Land
Trust -Network of communities -Access to expertise -Peer support
-Trusted partner -Asset strength borrowing capacity -Flexible on
going stewardship Slide 7 Strategic Partners Local Authority
Housing Enablers Planners Councillors Town and/or Parish Councils
Councillors Communities Our customers new - existing Our future
customers NIMBYS/BANANAS Home and Communities Agency Shropshire
Council NHB Funding revenue Incentivising communities with NHB
Local plan Enablers Herefordshire Council National leader on
Neighbourhood Planning Enablers Slide 8 Our Schemes Lyonshall,
Herefordshire Neenton, Shropshire Church Stretton, Shropshire
Orleton, Herefordshire Onibury, Shropshire Slide 9 Lyonshall
Community Led housing enabled Lyonshall to provide affordable
housing on terms that the community wanted. At long last we were
able to start a housing project targeted at the community which
also had the support of the community Paul Avery, Chair of
Lyonshall Parish Council Slide 10 Neenton The way SSHA has engaged
with our community to deliver affordable housing as an integral
part of a major community project that has helped make it happen
has been crucial in winning over the doubters John Pickup, Chair,
Neenton BenCom. Slide 11 Church Stretton Coming together is a
beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is
success. This quote from Henry Ford sums up what the Ashbrook II
Project Board is all about. We came together in the beginning as a
group of enthusiastic people from all walks of life who wanted to
be involved in producing the best affordable housing project for
the community of Church Stretton. We have gone out to seek peoples
views, deliberated over architects, builders, site layout, design
details and building materials. We have agreed, disagreed and
compromised but in the end we have a planned development which
encapsulated all our input. I now look forward to it being a
success Hilary ClaytonSmith Project Board Member and local
architectural quality champion Slide 12 Orleton Slide 13 Onibury
From the first instance, the local community were consulted of the
proposed development, this is in the interest of good
communications. Our experience is one of an open agenda in public
meetings and committees, where all aspects of need, planning and
design were discussed, this has been welcomed by all Ray Jeavons,
Onibury Parish Councillor and Project Board Member Slide 14 Long
Term Stewardship Work for 2014 Legal model agreed Marches CLT
Community options Scrutiny Engagement in housing management
Engagement in maintenance contracts Both Leasehold Ownership
Discussions regarding CLT or equivalent Slide 15 Learning What an
organisation needs? An open mind, build trust A willingness to do
more than housing Good communication Commitment to the journey
Excellent innovative problem resolution Community at the heart of
its actions Dedicated staff who understand the more than bricks and
mortar business Slide 16 Learning What you need to avoid! Over
promising Not recognising time and resource implications Not
joining up housing management and development teams Not engaging
strategic planning and development control Slide 17 Learning Why
would you get involved? Approached in the right way it delivers:
Better scheme Better community engagement Acceptance Sustainable
communities Empowers people and communities There is funding! Its
fun! Slide 18 Thank you for listening
