Community Land Trust Network.

Community Land Trusts – or CLTs – give ordinary people the means to steward land for local wellbeing; developing and managing homes and other assets important to their local community.

For more details please click here Community Land Trust Network | Homepage (communitylandtrusts.org.uk)

The vision:

We face many challenges that come back to land ownership – the cost of housing, left behind communities, the climate crisis.

Public policy and market practice is struggling to meet these challenges.

• Our planning system and housing market are dominated by a shrinking number of developers that too often produce unaffordable and poor quality homes, which local communities don’t want.
• Our most deprived communities have little or no agency to turn things around and are neglected by the mainstream market actors.
• Communities directly affected by climate change can’t take the lead in transitioning to net zero, nor in making their neighbourhoods more resilient to climate shocks.

CLTs offer communities a way to tackle these challenges head on, building back better and strengthening their community in the process.

In villages, towns and cities, rural and urban areas, CLTs are forging locally driven solutions that strengthen economic, social and environmental sustainability. From converting a toilet block into flats to building a 500 home garden village, turning a disused village school into an enterprise centre to bringing large tracts of farmland into better stewardship – all through democratic community ownership of the land.

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AGM

To view the AGM agenda or supporting papers please click on the relevant year below.

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Corfe Castle Community Land Trust

The first project of the Corfe Castle Community Land Trust Limited is to provide genuinely affordable housing for people with a strong local connection to the village. Future projects could involve taking on other assets important to the community.

Corfe Castle Community Land Trust Limited is a Community Land Trust. There is a legal definition of a CLT. It must be:

• Owned by the Community
• Run by the Community
• For the benefit of that geographical Community
• Not for personal profit

Housing and Regeneration Act 2008 Part 2, Chapter 1, Clause 79.

To ensure the CLT meets these criteria the Corfe Castle Community Land Trust has been registered as a Community Benefit Society; it needs members to join and help to achieve its aims and objectives. Each member will have one, equal vote at general meetings, may offer to serve as a board member and will elect the board.

A Community Benefit Society is joined by members owning shares in it. Unlike a share in a company (such as British Gas) you will not ‘own’ part of the CLT and will not receive any payment from profits. The shares cannot rise in value but may lose value. You cannot sell them.

As a Community Benefit Society, as well as guaranteeing democracy and ensuring its assets are protected, Corfe Castle Community Land Trust will be able to raise funds through issuing shares. Currently we simply need members.

We are asking for those who want to support our initial goal of providing affordable housing for local people to invest in £1 shares and join us.

Please print and return the application form in the link below with your payment to The Secretary, CCCLT,  50 West Street, Corfe Castle, BH20 5HE.

Membership Application Form

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Corfe Castle Community Land Trust Limited is a Community Benefit Society Registration No. 7558

Registered Office: 50 West Street, Corfe Castle, Dorset BH20 5HE

Email: corfecastlecommunitylandtrust@gmail.com

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Archived News:

Click to look back through news from the CCCLT. Starting in October 2017 with our report on the newly elected board.