Community Land Trusts
By Jessica Smith, Policy Researcher, CLES. Community Land Trusts (CLTs) bring together the principle of protecting land for community benefit with the more recently emerging agenda of asset transfer, and are essentially a mechanism for the democratic ownership of land or buildings by local communities. CLTs offer an innovative model for tackling many of the social agendas that affect both rural and urban communities; from helping to tackle housing shortages, to promoting active citizenship and community empowerment.
This Local Work begins by explaining Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD), an approach which sees community assets as the key to sustainable community development. Following this, CLTs are explained in more detail and how the model corresponds with the ABCD approach. Next, the policy agendas which CLTs complement are considered, honing in on asset transfer, empowerment, and housing. This Local Work concludes by outlining some of the challenges around CLTs, and how they can be overcome, and finally considers how CLTs can contribute towards forging resilient local communities, drawing on CLES’ model of economic resilience.
Community Land TrustsCLES Commendations 2010
Three projects received commendations at this year's CLES Summit - Grow (Hull); The Star Inn (Salford) and East Lindsey Active (Lincolnshire).
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