CDS Co-operatives marks 50 years of innovation in #coop and #communityledhousing! The ongoing stability of CDS shows that with the right support and mentoring, residents can control what matters most about their homes and neighbourhoods. Read history here: www.cds.coop/2025/12/15/5...

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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

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/...

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...

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.

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...

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!

'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

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...

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...

lovely piece about Hazelmead Cohousing, Bridport by @rowanmoore.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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.

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...

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.

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.

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

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

Nice series from @georgiagould.bsky.social WECH is a great example of #residentcontrol in housing! more here www.communityledhousing.london/project/wech/

Great to check the #NPPF and find our comments taken on board! The new definition works for a range of #communityledhousing. Although wordy, it helps LPAs "seek opportunities through policies and decisions, to support small sites to come forward for community-led development for housing" (para 73)

We would like to take this opportunity to give a huge thank you to all our residents, friends, sponsors and supporters who helped us achieve this milestone 🩷 @clhlondon.bsky.social @barrowcadbury.bsky.social @trustforlondon.bsky.social @charitybank.bsky.social

This is an ex-garage site in #orpington that Clarion has agreed to sell to the newly formed Bromley Community Land trust. We need help to raise the money to buy it. Join us to provide permanently affordable housing @clhlondon.bsky.social

Bigger social landlords are demonstrably worse now that there are measures rather than anecdotes. Does not fit with RSH's other remit to ensure financial viability, often through mergers.

A dreary construction photo, of a fantastic project: #RUSS #selfbuild #communitylandtrust Wonderful podcast demonstrating the challenges and the triumphs. #mustlisten

Centre for Social Justice has a new report on loneliness and the built environment. Part of it is about good design, but also "the lack of control that many feel over the future of their communities" noting that "agency is the pathway to belonging". www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/library/lone...

"The attraction of La Chalmeta #CoopHousing is not only its affordability but its community spirit"... www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

We are because they were. They will be because we are. #cooperatives Ana Aguirre #coophousing

Great news for #E16 #CLT as Newham Cabinet approve the transfer of a small site in Canning Town. Mayor Rokhsana Fiaz described it as "another housing milestone in Newham". It has been a long road! Well done to all for not giving up hope. #thirdtimelucky

🆕 Constructing Consensus: The case for community-powered development and regeneration In a report out today, we argue for a better system of development in England – one that fully involves and empowers communities in decision-making. https://buff.ly/4f6Ks7q 🧵👇

London #CommunityLandTrust AGM visiting their Cable Street site, and remembering the famous Battle at one of the great murals of London (up there with Sanford #HousingCoop)

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

Over 10 million users! We were #2,382,852. Hope to see many more #communityledhousing groups, bodies, advisers, and supporters on here soon.

For London Open House Festival this weekend, architecture critic Olly Wainwright has selected several #communityledhousing schemes to take a closer look at! open-city.org.uk/blog/alterna...

More exciting than the American elections... The Rural Urban Synthesis Society is looking to elect a new chair. Anyone can get involved. Similar volunteering opportunities in all sorts of #communityledhousing organisations. They're also looking for a paid secretary. www.theruss.org/category/news/

We'll be submitting evidence to the #LondonAssembly Housing Committee on #CommunityLandTrusts and #HousingCooperatives next week... In the meantime there's some good stuff to get behind in this submission we fed into by the CLT Network. www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Nice piece considering mutual support in #IntergenerationalLiving with a mention for one of the most significant recent #communityledhousing projects! #RUSS www.bdonline.co.uk/opinion/buil...

Glenkerry #HousingCoop is interesting in giving discounted leasehold ownership of flats, that remain discounted at each resale over the long term. Good to see more coverage here: poplarlondon.co.uk/social-housi...

We spoke to the London Assembly Housing Committee about #communityledhousing, drawing on our reflections for the future and how we might give people control and belonging without the challenges. Full sessions here: www.communityledhousing.london/london-assembly-clh

Looks like a great event by Gida #HousingCoop opposite St Ann's in #Tottenham get on board if you're nearby: www.gidahousing.coop

So nice to speak at the Rural Urban Synthesis Society's completed Church Grove #CommunityLandTrust scheme in Ladywell yesterday.

Interesting discussions @NW3CLT event with @RUSS and @LondonCLT www.nw3clt.org.uk/news/successful-clt-round-table-at-london-school-of-mosaics