community led housing london

Cable Street

London CLT secured the site through the GLA’s Small Sites Small Builders programme, to deliver affordable homes linked to local incomes, following local organising and membership building around the site.

The local group drew up a brief together, with a vision for the site, and used this to tender for an architect. Nearly fifty people cast their vote for one of four shortlisted architects they wanted to work with to design the homes.

How we’re helping
We supported legal work to finalise a funding agreement with the Greater London Authority.

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Arcadia Cohousing

Arcadia are looking to build affordable, inter-generational housing in East London. As a group, they met through church, and have visited other community led housing projects and attended various workshops to establish their vision and values.

They hope to have shared spaces such as a kitchen and garden where residents can socialise, in addition to their own personal living space. They are looking to incorporate provision for the elderly and/or disabled in their scheme, and work on bringing the wider community in, living out the Christian principle “love your neighbour as yourself”.

They are looking to build 5-10 submarket leasehold homes. It is anticipated individual leases will have a resale price covenant imposed through a sec 106, to protect any affordability in the homes in perpetuity

How we’re helping
We have supported Arcadia to incorporate as a Community Interest Company, think through their objects and open a bank account. Households will be directors of the company working with participatory decision making. We also helped them commission financial modelling, and prepare proposals to redevelop a church site in Tower Hamlets.

 
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