Community Led Homes
@clhlondon.bsky.social
We support people making homes together.
#Cohousing #CommunityLandTrusts #CooperativeHousing #Housing #Co-op
www.communityled.homes part of cds.coop in London & beyond
#Cohousing #CommunityLandTrusts #CooperativeHousing #Housing #Co-op
www.communityled.homes part of cds.coop in London & beyond
Check out the programme for Cooperation Day 2025 -
Sunday 13 July, 12-6pm at Cooperation Town Hub, London NW5 4RA. A full day of workshops on housing and all kinds of other co-ops, including the Collective Ownership Society and Gida Housing Co-op
Book free here:
lu.ma/tj0f030u
Sunday 13 July, 12-6pm at Cooperation Town Hub, London NW5 4RA. A full day of workshops on housing and all kinds of other co-ops, including the Collective Ownership Society and Gida Housing Co-op
Book free here:
lu.ma/tj0f030u
July 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Check out the programme for Cooperation Day 2025 -
Sunday 13 July, 12-6pm at Cooperation Town Hub, London NW5 4RA. A full day of workshops on housing and all kinds of other co-ops, including the Collective Ownership Society and Gida Housing Co-op
Book free here:
lu.ma/tj0f030u
Sunday 13 July, 12-6pm at Cooperation Town Hub, London NW5 4RA. A full day of workshops on housing and all kinds of other co-ops, including the Collective Ownership Society and Gida Housing Co-op
Book free here:
lu.ma/tj0f030u
The latest Urban Design Group Journal has a piece on giving people control and belonging, without the challenges encountered in traditional approaches to #communityledhousing.
We're discussing our new approaches on 14 July here:
www.udg.org.uk/events/2025/...
We're discussing our new approaches on 14 July here:
www.udg.org.uk/events/2025/...
July 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
The latest Urban Design Group Journal has a piece on giving people control and belonging, without the challenges encountered in traditional approaches to #communityledhousing.
We're discussing our new approaches on 14 July here:
www.udg.org.uk/events/2025/...
We're discussing our new approaches on 14 July here:
www.udg.org.uk/events/2025/...
Last week, we joined public landowners and small builders at @london.gov.uk for #SmallSites knowledge sharing.
We 'pitched' #BuildBelonging, where we turn developments into strong communities with a sense of belonging and neighbourly living:
www.communityledhousing.london/build-belong...
We 'pitched' #BuildBelonging, where we turn developments into strong communities with a sense of belonging and neighbourly living:
www.communityledhousing.london/build-belong...
Build Belonging - community led housing london
Community led housing can add significant social value to developments, large and small, and save on some costs.
www.communityledhousing.london
June 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Last week, we joined public landowners and small builders at @london.gov.uk for #SmallSites knowledge sharing.
We 'pitched' #BuildBelonging, where we turn developments into strong communities with a sense of belonging and neighbourly living:
www.communityledhousing.london/build-belong...
We 'pitched' #BuildBelonging, where we turn developments into strong communities with a sense of belonging and neighbourly living:
www.communityledhousing.london/build-belong...
Revisit: How Older Women’s Co-Housing made New Ground. What can be learnt from this still rare and radical way of living together?
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/re...
The loss of the LOLC scheme "still stings" for us too.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/re...
The loss of the LOLC scheme "still stings" for us too.
Revisit: How Older Women’s Co-Housing made New Ground
The senior co-housing scheme in Barnet, north London, was developed, funded and co-designed by a group of women, working with Pollard Thomas Edwards. Almost a decade after its completion, what can be ...
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Revisit: How Older Women’s Co-Housing made New Ground. What can be learnt from this still rare and radical way of living together?
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/re...
The loss of the LOLC scheme "still stings" for us too.
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/re...
The loss of the LOLC scheme "still stings" for us too.
We’re proud to support #CommunityLandTrusts on #WorldCLTDay2025.
Now with #CDS as a Registered Provider and the experience offering management services to #housingcoops we help enable communities like #RUSS and #NW3CLT achieve their ambitions for mixed neighbourhoods.
www.cds.coop/community-le...
Now with #CDS as a Registered Provider and the experience offering management services to #housingcoops we help enable communities like #RUSS and #NW3CLT achieve their ambitions for mixed neighbourhoods.
www.cds.coop/community-le...
May 16, 2025 at 6:44 AM
We’re proud to support #CommunityLandTrusts on #WorldCLTDay2025.
Now with #CDS as a Registered Provider and the experience offering management services to #housingcoops we help enable communities like #RUSS and #NW3CLT achieve their ambitions for mixed neighbourhoods.
www.cds.coop/community-le...
Now with #CDS as a Registered Provider and the experience offering management services to #housingcoops we help enable communities like #RUSS and #NW3CLT achieve their ambitions for mixed neighbourhoods.
www.cds.coop/community-le...
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Great to see Leathermarket CBS Marklake Court on the Good Homes for All list. Cascaded benefits to 100s of households. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/ca...
Case study: Marklake Court by Bell Phillips
The council-funded, Bell Phillips-designed project was conceived by local residents, who formed the Leathermarket Community Benefit Society (CBS) to generate genuinely affordable new homes. Photograph...
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Great to see Leathermarket CBS Marklake Court on the Good Homes for All list. Cascaded benefits to 100s of households. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/ca...
Trellis House Co-op is a newly forming #housingcoop looking for members to live in a beautiful shared house in the West London suburbs.
Check out www.collectiveownership.co.uk/become-a-res... if you’d like to join the co-op and for more information.
Share with anyone who might be interested!
Check out www.collectiveownership.co.uk/become-a-res... if you’d like to join the co-op and for more information.
Share with anyone who might be interested!
May 14, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Trellis House Co-op is a newly forming #housingcoop looking for members to live in a beautiful shared house in the West London suburbs.
Check out www.collectiveownership.co.uk/become-a-res... if you’d like to join the co-op and for more information.
Share with anyone who might be interested!
Check out www.collectiveownership.co.uk/become-a-res... if you’d like to join the co-op and for more information.
Share with anyone who might be interested!
'In the Shadow of the Shard' film screening 11 Jun, about Marklake Court, a #communityleddevelopment of council rent homes on existing estates, we often use as an example for councils.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-sha...
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In the Shadow of the Shard
A film that celebrates codesign and what social housing can achieve when it embraces the true spirit of partnership with residents.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 6:48 AM
'In the Shadow of the Shard' film screening 11 Jun, about Marklake Court, a #communityleddevelopment of council rent homes on existing estates, we often use as an example for councils.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-sha...
@jpcookie50.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-sha...
@jpcookie50.bsky.social
Latest on the London Assembly report, Property Development Bookclub podcast, and opportunities to join Gida Housing #Co-op and Laughton Lodge #Cohousing.
Sign up for more: us12.campaign-archive.com?u=a18489721a...
Sign up for more: us12.campaign-archive.com?u=a18489721a...
Assembly report, CLH on podcast, and chances to join co-ops and cohousing.
us12.campaign-archive.com
May 13, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Latest on the London Assembly report, Property Development Bookclub podcast, and opportunities to join Gida Housing #Co-op and Laughton Lodge #Cohousing.
Sign up for more: us12.campaign-archive.com?u=a18489721a...
Sign up for more: us12.campaign-archive.com?u=a18489721a...
Mariposa Grove Cohousing is a democratically-governed community in North Oakland including renters and homeowners... A brief note on learnings from the States:
www.communityledhousing.london/mariposa-gro...
www.communityledhousing.london/mariposa-gro...
May 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Mariposa Grove Cohousing is a democratically-governed community in North Oakland including renters and homeowners... A brief note on learnings from the States:
www.communityledhousing.london/mariposa-gro...
www.communityledhousing.london/mariposa-gro...
lovely piece about Hazelmead Cohousing, Bridport by @rowanmoore.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/culture/arch...
observer.co.uk/culture/arch...
May 4, 2025 at 10:39 AM
lovely piece about Hazelmead Cohousing, Bridport by @rowanmoore.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/culture/arch...
observer.co.uk/culture/arch...
Reviewing the recent London Assembly Report, we think new approaches such as Collective Ownership are essential to making community led housing quicker and easier for London's diverse communities 👇
www.communityledhousing.london/london-assem...
www.communityledhousing.london/london-assem...
London Assembly backs community led housing - community led housing london
The recent report from the London Assembly Housing Committee shines a light on Housing Co-ops and Community Land Trusts. It’s encouraging to see community-led housing being taken seriously at this […]
www.communityledhousing.london
April 30, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Reviewing the recent London Assembly Report, we think new approaches such as Collective Ownership are essential to making community led housing quicker and easier for London's diverse communities 👇
www.communityledhousing.london/london-assem...
www.communityledhousing.london/london-assem...
Widespread mandatory #Commonhold could give #communityledhousing widely understood structures to work with, and see some empowerment become mainstream.
We hope to help nuance proposals, and support group decisions on estate management, and adress conflict.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
We hope to help nuance proposals, and support group decisions on estate management, and adress conflict.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
New flats in England and Wales may soon all be commonhold. But what does it mean?
‘It’s very hands-on,’ say neighbours in a commonhold Bristol block set up 15 years ago and managed by the flat owners
www.theguardian.com
April 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Widespread mandatory #Commonhold could give #communityledhousing widely understood structures to work with, and see some empowerment become mainstream.
We hope to help nuance proposals, and support group decisions on estate management, and adress conflict.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
We hope to help nuance proposals, and support group decisions on estate management, and adress conflict.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Good analysis of Graven Hill #selfbuild. Reflects our impression when we visited a couple of years ago.
Wonder what might have been with a little more #communityled in the mix, rather than a collection of individuals.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Wonder what might have been with a little more #communityled in the mix, rather than a collection of individuals.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
‘Ours was inspired by the Empire State Building!’ The chaotic brilliance of the UK’s biggest self-build town
It is a place where a Disney-ish castle, complete with turrets, sits near a scaly ‘pangolin’ house. But is Graven Hill now straying from the DIY vision that made its anarchic jumble of styles so mesme...
www.theguardian.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Good analysis of Graven Hill #selfbuild. Reflects our impression when we visited a couple of years ago.
Wonder what might have been with a little more #communityled in the mix, rather than a collection of individuals.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Wonder what might have been with a little more #communityled in the mix, rather than a collection of individuals.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Easter podcast listening! covering what #communityledhousing is, what makes it unique, how it addresses affordability, misconceptions, barriers, and how it could scale without loosing the diverse resident control that makes it so powerful.
www.communityledhousing.london/property-dev...
www.communityledhousing.london/property-dev...
Property Development Book Club podcast - community led housing london
Our director, Levent Kerimol joined Hanna Afolabi from Mood & Space and Selasi Setufe MBE to talk about community led housing for the Property Development Book Club podcast. The conversation […]
www.communityledhousing.london
April 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Easter podcast listening! covering what #communityledhousing is, what makes it unique, how it addresses affordability, misconceptions, barriers, and how it could scale without loosing the diverse resident control that makes it so powerful.
www.communityledhousing.london/property-dev...
www.communityledhousing.london/property-dev...
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Not enough cash and too many barriers for community-led housing, Khan warned
Not enough cash and too many barriers for community-led housing, Khan warned
www.architectsjournal.co.uk
April 17, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Not enough cash and too many barriers for community-led housing, Khan warned
The national bodies for CLH worked together to respond to the Government Spending Review consultation in Feb.
We're encouraging CLH groups of all kinds to contact their MPs in April, adapting these templates to their group structure and priorities: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
We're encouraging CLH groups of all kinds to contact their MPs in April, adapting these templates to their group structure and priorities: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
March 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
The national bodies for CLH worked together to respond to the Government Spending Review consultation in Feb.
We're encouraging CLH groups of all kinds to contact their MPs in April, adapting these templates to their group structure and priorities: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
We're encouraging CLH groups of all kinds to contact their MPs in April, adapting these templates to their group structure and priorities: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...
We have been hosted by CDS Co-operatives www.cds.coop over the past seven years, and from April we will become an integral part of CDS' mission to make community led housing more widespread.
March 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
We have been hosted by CDS Co-operatives www.cds.coop over the past seven years, and from April we will become an integral part of CDS' mission to make community led housing more widespread.
We've been working with CDS to bring together stakeholders from across the social housing sector to explore how co-operation and power sharing between providers and resident communities can work to address key issues the sector is facing.
March 26, 2025 at 11:10 PM
We've been working with CDS to bring together stakeholders from across the social housing sector to explore how co-operation and power sharing between providers and resident communities can work to address key issues the sector is facing.
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What role could community led housing play in meeting the Government's target for 1.5 million homes? Come and hear from me, Lev from @clhlondon.bsky.social and Dave from @groundedsolutions.bsky.social.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/delivering...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/delivering...
Delivering 1.5 million homes
Join us for a virtual event focused on the ambitious goal of delivering 1.5 million homes to those in need.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 4, 2025 at 10:01 AM
What role could community led housing play in meeting the Government's target for 1.5 million homes? Come and hear from me, Lev from @clhlondon.bsky.social and Dave from @groundedsolutions.bsky.social.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/delivering...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/delivering...
We're taking part in a University of East London Housing Knowledge Exchange Seminar on Wed 5 March at 1pm (online) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/delivering...
Should be a good discussion on future directions for #communityledhousing.
Should be a good discussion on future directions for #communityledhousing.
Delivering 1.5 million homes
Join us for a virtual event focused on the ambitious goal of delivering 1.5 million homes to those in need.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
We're taking part in a University of East London Housing Knowledge Exchange Seminar on Wed 5 March at 1pm (online) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/delivering...
Should be a good discussion on future directions for #communityledhousing.
Should be a good discussion on future directions for #communityledhousing.
New Towns need #communityled housing, management, and stewardship! Great work by #CommunityLandTrust Network and UK #Cohousing Network sourcing ideas from a range of experts last week. Different approaches can be nested for maximum impact.
February 11, 2025 at 11:25 AM
New Towns need #communityled housing, management, and stewardship! Great work by #CommunityLandTrust Network and UK #Cohousing Network sourcing ideas from a range of experts last week. Different approaches can be nested for maximum impact.
One of our Advisers, Andy Bates, looks into the need to empower residents in social housing, for @redbrickblog.bsky.social blog redbrickblog.co.uk/2025/01/soci...
Resonates with our work on power-sharing between landlords and tenants.
Resonates with our work on power-sharing between landlords and tenants.
Social housing needs the Streeting treatment - Red Brick
Andy Bates looks into the need to focus social housing to empower and put tenants first in the model of Wes Streeting's NHS reforms, drawing from one of Streeting's heroes Tony Crosland.
redbrickblog.co.uk
January 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
One of our Advisers, Andy Bates, looks into the need to empower residents in social housing, for @redbrickblog.bsky.social blog redbrickblog.co.uk/2025/01/soci...
Resonates with our work on power-sharing between landlords and tenants.
Resonates with our work on power-sharing between landlords and tenants.
Democratic resident bodies making decisions over the #stewardship of estates and new neighbourhoods is so obvious!
We're keen and ready to help put the right arrangements in place with #developers and #housingassociations
Great overview published today: www.clteurope.org/newsandinsights/large-sites
We're keen and ready to help put the right arrangements in place with #developers and #housingassociations
Great overview published today: www.clteurope.org/newsandinsights/large-sites
European Community Land Trust Network
Proposals on transforming management of large housing-led sites in England and Europe.
www.clteurope.org
January 14, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Democratic resident bodies making decisions over the #stewardship of estates and new neighbourhoods is so obvious!
We're keen and ready to help put the right arrangements in place with #developers and #housingassociations
Great overview published today: www.clteurope.org/newsandinsights/large-sites
We're keen and ready to help put the right arrangements in place with #developers and #housingassociations
Great overview published today: www.clteurope.org/newsandinsights/large-sites
Great to see #RUSS in the Guardian's top 3 architectural highlights for 2024.
Well deserved way to wrap up a successful year.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/dec/18/the-best-art-and-architecture-of-2024
#communitylandtrust #cohousing #ukhousing
Well deserved way to wrap up a successful year.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/dec/18/the-best-art-and-architecture-of-2024
#communitylandtrust #cohousing #ukhousing
December 19, 2024 at 10:40 PM
Great to see #RUSS in the Guardian's top 3 architectural highlights for 2024.
Well deserved way to wrap up a successful year.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/dec/18/the-best-art-and-architecture-of-2024
#communitylandtrust #cohousing #ukhousing
Well deserved way to wrap up a successful year.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/dec/18/the-best-art-and-architecture-of-2024
#communitylandtrust #cohousing #ukhousing