We're excited by a proposed Community Right to Buy - but we need to make sure that impactful CLTs (like Hastings Commons and Calder Valley CLT) creating new community places & community led affordable homes don't miss out Tom Chance shares the terms we need to see communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-event…

If the Community Right to Buy is to really help all communities play a part in the national renewal then Jim McMahon MP's Devolution Bill needs to scrap or reform the Assets of Community Value niche that existing community rights are confined in --->

Thanks Neil Coyle for raising #communityledhousing with Matthew Pennycook MP. The NPPF consultation Matt mentions includes modest changes but could go a lot further to increase housing supply and wire co-operative principles into more of the mainstream industry. theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2024…

"When the full diversity of our communities come together wonderful things can happen" - a statement from the CLT Network in response to the current violence.

📢With Greenwich Citizens Housing, we've submitted plans for 16 genuinely #affordablehomes on 3 sites in Greenwich. 👏👏👏 🏡Transforming a cluster of tricky, small sites (garage & backland) 🏡Community-led 🏡Passivhaus design by Archio Ltd #communitylandtrust 📸 Archio Ltd

Come and work with me in marvellous Stoke on Trent. There is so so much to do to help this country create more homes in better, more sustainable and more beautiful places.

Back from the US and v pleased to be joining ਇਮਨਦੀਪ ਕੌਰ | Imandeep Kaur, Ailbhe McNabola and Linda Gillespie from Development Trusts Association Scotland for this event to launch our new paper on getting a Community Right to Buy right.

Join us online on Tuesday 17 September for an evening of discussion about what the National Planning Policy Framework should contain, featuring Shama Tatler, Tom Chance (Community Land Trust Network), Rachael Williamson (Chartered Institute of Housing) eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-should-…

📖 NEW ARTICLE | Planning reforms for small and community-led builders Tom Chance, Chief Executive of the Community Land Trust Network, makes the case for reducing uncertainty in the planning system to encourage smaller businesses to build more homes. redbrickblog.co.uk/2024/09/planni…

Thank you Andrew George and Jayne Kirkham MP for Truro & Falmouth for raising Community Land Trust Network in a debate on housing, here's how Matthew Pennycook MP responded. Full debate: hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2024-0… We've set out our draft response to the NPPF consultation here communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-event…

What should be in the Labour Government's National Planning Policy Framework? Join us online next week for an evening of discussion and debate, featuring Shama Tatler, Tom Chance (Community Land Trust Network), Rachael Williamson (Chartered Institute of Housing) Register👇 eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-should-…

Our CEO, Tom Chance, has submitted a set of proposals to HM Treasury for the 2024 autumn budget. In short, to renew the Community Housing Fund, release funds for community led projects & implement further enabling reforms. See the proposals in full here: communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-event…

Nice to see Markus Campbell-Savours MP mention Community Land Trust Network in Penrith and Solway in his maiden speech in the Commons, and Lizzi Collinge MP mention Lune Valley CLT in a debate on rural depopulation. I hope you both write to Matthew Pennycook MP to raise this! Our asks - communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-event…

Community Land Trust Network are a vital tool in delivering affordable homes in small rural communities, where the large housing associations often won't deliver.

Five months since Sonos released its incomprehensible app and you still can't edit the music queue. Hopeless.

How can CLTs be used for sustainable agriculture? The CLT model could help create a more cohesive land reform movement, by joining up 2 disconnected areas of community land ownership; housing + food/farming Community Land Trust Network Tom Chance Read the report ⤵️ buff.ly/3IyITB0

What should be in the Labour Government's NPPF? If you missed our event on Tuesday, you can catch up now on our YouTube and Spotify channels! Alex Toal Alison Inman Shama Tatler, Tom Chance Rachael Williamson labourhousing.org/events/past-ev…