Tom Chance
@tomchance.bsky.social
CEO of the Community Land Trust Network / Rhwydwaith Ymddiriedolaethau
Tir Cymunedol https://www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk
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How can community-powered neighbourhood governance help rebuild trust in one of the most contested areas of local decision-making: planning and development?
Read our guest blog by @tomchance.bsky.social, Chief Executive of the Community Land Trust Network.
Read our guest blog by @tomchance.bsky.social, Chief Executive of the Community Land Trust Network.
Planning from the ground up: Neighbourhood governance and the future of development - We're Right Here
We’re Right Here is a monumental ground-up campaign for community power.
www.right-here.org
February 3, 2026 at 12:15 PM
How can community-powered neighbourhood governance help rebuild trust in one of the most contested areas of local decision-making: planning and development?
Read our guest blog by @tomchance.bsky.social, Chief Executive of the Community Land Trust Network.
Read our guest blog by @tomchance.bsky.social, Chief Executive of the Community Land Trust Network.
Huge thanks to @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social and Baroness Freeman of Steventon for tabling amendments to the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill in the Lords, trying again to get Assets of Community Value to consider 'environmental interests' as well as social and economic.
January 29, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Huge thanks to @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social and Baroness Freeman of Steventon for tabling amendments to the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill in the Lords, trying again to get Assets of Community Value to consider 'environmental interests' as well as social and economic.
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Even after the mansion tax is applied, the owner of a £5m home in Westminster will pay proportionately less in property tax than the owner of a £210k Band B property in Sunderland.
January 9, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Even after the mansion tax is applied, the owner of a £5m home in Westminster will pay proportionately less in property tax than the owner of a £210k Band B property in Sunderland.
Nice to see David Walker, the Bishop of Manchester, raising community led housing and getting a positive response in the Lords today. David and I both sit on the Manchester Social Housing Commission, which will launch a paper on community-led models later this year.
January 8, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Nice to see David Walker, the Bishop of Manchester, raising community led housing and getting a positive response in the Lords today. David and I both sit on the Manchester Social Housing Commission, which will launch a paper on community-led models later this year.
Presumably he doesn't bother with the winter flu jab and wouldn't want to provide that on the NHS then?
Farage: "I believe in vaccinations when they're vaccinations. I don't think what happened with Covid were vaccinations. You have to keep having them every 6 months."
Conspiratorial nonsense.
Some vaccinations like Covid shots require multiple/seasonal doses because immunity fades & viruses change.
Conspiratorial nonsense.
Some vaccinations like Covid shots require multiple/seasonal doses because immunity fades & viruses change.
January 7, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Presumably he doesn't bother with the winter flu jab and wouldn't want to provide that on the NHS then?
Hive mind question... has anyone read any really good analyses of the National Planning Policy Framework consultation? I'm looking for some good links to share with our members as we develop the Community Land Trust Network response. Particularly to help us spot issues we might miss...
January 7, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Hive mind question... has anyone read any really good analyses of the National Planning Policy Framework consultation? I'm looking for some good links to share with our members as we develop the Community Land Trust Network response. Particularly to help us spot issues we might miss...
Half my inbox this week is emails from organisations I have a fairly tenuous connection to, wishing me a merry Christmas. What's the point?
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Half my inbox this week is emails from organisations I have a fairly tenuous connection to, wishing me a merry Christmas. What's the point?
Join the Community Land Trust Network team, and help us build the next wave of partnerships and innovations to scale up community ownership and community-led development!
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/who-we-are/v...
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/who-we-are/v...
Community Land Trust Network - Trustee Recruitment 2024
The CLT Network is recruiting 2 trustees to join our dynamic organisation that is behind a growing movement of communities building genuinely affordable homes.
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk
December 10, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Join the Community Land Trust Network team, and help us build the next wave of partnerships and innovations to scale up community ownership and community-led development!
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/who-we-are/v...
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/who-we-are/v...
Great to bring together some members of the Community Land Trust movement in Abertawe/Swansea today to plot the next five years of our work, including the Senedd elections next year. This wraps up similar gatherings in Leeds, Bridport, Hastings and online.
December 5, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Great to bring together some members of the Community Land Trust movement in Abertawe/Swansea today to plot the next five years of our work, including the Senedd elections next year. This wraps up similar gatherings in Leeds, Bridport, Hastings and online.
Exciting work to develop a sustainable financing model for enabling CLT-housing association partnerships in rural areas. If we can crack this it provides a big rural pipeline into the £39bn SAHP. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Financing the future of CLT housing projects | Community Land Trust Network
November 2025 Finance is the most significant barrier for communities looking to develop new homes. The most significant gap is early-stage finance - the £1 ...
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Exciting work to develop a sustainable financing model for enabling CLT-housing association partnerships in rural areas. If we can crack this it provides a big rural pipeline into the £39bn SAHP. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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This week @simonforstroud.bsky.social & 20 other MPs made a valiant effort to strengthen Community Right to Buy powers to help communities own rivers, woods & moors
Ministers didn't accept the amendments but sought to reassure that CRtB will apply to environmental assets 1/
bsky.app/profile/guys...
Ministers didn't accept the amendments but sought to reassure that CRtB will apply to environmental assets 1/
bsky.app/profile/guys...
Let communities own rivers, woods & moors!
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This week @simonforstroud.bsky.social & 20 other MPs made a valiant effort to strengthen Community Right to Buy powers to help communities own rivers, woods & moors
Ministers didn't accept the amendments but sought to reassure that CRtB will apply to environmental assets 1/
bsky.app/profile/guys...
Ministers didn't accept the amendments but sought to reassure that CRtB will apply to environmental assets 1/
bsky.app/profile/guys...
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Fantastic inspirational event yesterday, Community Development and Planning with @tomchance.bsky.social #ClaudeHendricksonMBE #AnnSkippers and #MichaelBall (Just Space). Great mix of people & lovely to see @danielmadav.bsky.social #RobinBrown and #MyfanwyTaylor #CommunityLedHousingForAll
November 28, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Fantastic inspirational event yesterday, Community Development and Planning with @tomchance.bsky.social #ClaudeHendricksonMBE #AnnSkippers and #MichaelBall (Just Space). Great mix of people & lovely to see @danielmadav.bsky.social #RobinBrown and #MyfanwyTaylor #CommunityLedHousingForAll
Part of this v.good series is a paper on how community land ownership and 'civic environmentalism' can drive hyper-local nature recovery, featuring a brilliant Community Land Trust in a detailed case study.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
November 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Part of this v.good series is a paper on how community land ownership and 'civic environmentalism' can drive hyper-local nature recovery, featuring a brilliant Community Land Trust in a detailed case study.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
Imagine the horror if property taxes were actually proportional! Or even progressive. Maybe surveyors might start accounting for this again when valuing properties, and it might affect buyer expectations and values... a man can dream.
Even after the mansion tax is applied, the owner of a £5m home in Westminster will pay proportionately less in property tax than the owner of a £210k Band B property in Sunderland.
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Imagine the horror if property taxes were actually proportional! Or even progressive. Maybe surveyors might start accounting for this again when valuing properties, and it might affect buyer expectations and values... a man can dream.
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From the lands of the Hupa in the west to the Seminole in the south, November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate and uphold the freedom of all Indigenous people to live in safe and stable homes. The fight for housing justice is also for land and racial justice.
November 25, 2025 at 4:18 PM
From the lands of the Hupa in the west to the Seminole in the south, November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to celebrate and uphold the freedom of all Indigenous people to live in safe and stable homes. The fight for housing justice is also for land and racial justice.
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Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
November 26, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Nus Ghani MP - the Deputy Speaker - moved to the UK as a small child. She has been elected by the voters in Wealden in 2015, 2017, 2019 and 2024
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
More outright racism from the regular GB News & Talk TV contributor Lucy White - who previously called (on GB News) for all Muslims to leave Britain
It seems the government is trying to make be buy Microsoft software... trying to open the policy costings PDF for the budget in Firefox/Evince on my linux laptop... what on earth?
November 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
It seems the government is trying to make be buy Microsoft software... trying to open the policy costings PDF for the budget in Firefox/Evince on my linux laptop... what on earth?
Thanks @jaynekirkhammp.bsky.social for asking @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social to allocate the English portion of the £100m fine to community led housing. Sadly the govt didn't do this, and so communities continue to lack £ to bring forward new projects.
www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=20...
www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=20...
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Thanks @jaynekirkhammp.bsky.social for asking @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social to allocate the English portion of the £100m fine to community led housing. Sadly the govt didn't do this, and so communities continue to lack £ to bring forward new projects.
www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=20...
www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=20...
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Here's our response to the government announcement that housing developments near railway stations will be given a ‘default yes’...
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Here's our response to the government announcement that housing developments near railway stations will be given a ‘default yes’...
Please support this! It's not just about rivers/woods/moors. It's also about communities being able to refer to 'environmental' interests in towns/cities, things like buying a building with plans to retrofit it, or create habitats in & around a building...
Let communities own rivers, woods & moors!
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
Excellent to see @simonforstroud.bsky.social has tabled amendments 107 & 108 to the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy laws in this way.
We need more Labour MPs to support this - email yours:
www.reclaimourmoors.uk/write-to-you... 1/
November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Please support this! It's not just about rivers/woods/moors. It's also about communities being able to refer to 'environmental' interests in towns/cities, things like buying a building with plans to retrofit it, or create habitats in & around a building...
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Which one is more English?
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Which one is more English?
Christmas present for a housing / community ownership enthusiast? A calendar celebrating 40 years after the campaign to save 2 council estates and take them into community ownership.
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
www.etsy.com
November 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Christmas present for a housing / community ownership enthusiast? A calendar celebrating 40 years after the campaign to save 2 council estates and take them into community ownership.
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
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'Communities must have the right to own environmental assets'
Great letter from @tomchance.bsky.social of the Community Land Trust Network to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, asking her to amend the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy:
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Great letter from @tomchance.bsky.social of the Community Land Trust Network to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, asking her to amend the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy:
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Communities must have the right to own environmental assets | Community Land Trust Network
We have written on behalf of 100s of community land trusts to urge the government to add 'environmental interests' to the definition of Assets of ...
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 12:20 PM
'Communities must have the right to own environmental assets'
Great letter from @tomchance.bsky.social of the Community Land Trust Network to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, asking her to amend the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy:
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Great letter from @tomchance.bsky.social of the Community Land Trust Network to @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social, asking her to amend the Devolution Bill to strengthen Community Right to Buy:
www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Disappointing that an amendment to add "environmental interests" alongside social and economic was defeated in committee, with @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social speaking against. At the CLT Network we'll keep working with @guyshrubsole.bsky.social etc to try and win this for genuine community ownership.
October 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Disappointing that an amendment to add "environmental interests" alongside social and economic was defeated in committee, with @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social speaking against. At the CLT Network we'll keep working with @guyshrubsole.bsky.social etc to try and win this for genuine community ownership.
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As far as I can tell, this policy would deport my Swedish wife (who has a well-paying job and pays thousands in tax each year, not that that should decide these things) because she "took" from society by going on maternity leave when our kids were born.
Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"
NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt
No govt since Idi Amin has done this
October 22, 2025 at 6:13 AM
As far as I can tell, this policy would deport my Swedish wife (who has a well-paying job and pays thousands in tax each year, not that that should decide these things) because she "took" from society by going on maternity leave when our kids were born.