Our vision is to build a vibrant community for the future where everyone can afford to live, work and play.
A Community Land Trust (CLT) is a charity organisation owned and run by the local community to develop the local area for the benefit of the whole community.
A CLT can develop affordable, CLT owned housing, community and green spaces, open market homes and much more.
A CLT scheme can provide affordable, CLT owned homes and open market homes.
CLTs have a broader range of things they can do for affordable housing.
Opportiunties for self build and custom build
A CLT can also can support a wider range of people since it is open to the whole community. This means people who don’t think they are eligible for “affordable” housing can still be helped by a CLT.
CLTs are run by the community so we can decide what we want to focus on
They can look beyond housing to community facilities too.
Join the steering group, we are looking for people to help set up!
Sign up as a member when we formally start, join the mailing list and we'll let you know when
We particularly need people with legal, financial, housing, development and business experience. If that is you please let us know!
See below for our most recent updates. Joining the mailing list will keep you updated with new posts. Our full archive can be found here. If you are looking to find out what Waterbeach CLT is and what it does have a look at the FAQ page. We also now have a facebook page and twitter account.
Are you looking for a home? Last year we asked anyone who was looking for a CLT home to fill in a short Expression of Interest form. That information has been really useful to us in looking for a project, talking with developers and convincing South Cambs District Council to support the CLT as part of the new town development. We are looking to update this information as we get close to setting up our first project.
We continue to make progress following our recent incorporation. We have appeared at the recent Neighbourhood Forums which have been organised by South Cambs District Council. These offer a great opportunity to talk to local people about why we think genuinely affordable homes are important, but also to see Planners, Councillors and Developers and have the opportunity to talk to them about how we can help achieve benefit for the Community.
Waterbeach CLT is now Incorporated! It’s been a productive few months at Waterbeach CLT, and with the new year started we have some exciting news to share. In late January we received confirmation that the CLT has been formally registered and incorporated as a Community Benefit Society with charitable aims. This will allow us to act for the community in perpetuity. This is a big step for the CLT as we are now a formal body, so have a governing set of rules, and when dealing with the Council, developers or potential partners they can see we have community support and are serious about our aims.
We continue to make lots of progress with setting up the Community Land Trust for Waterbeach. We were successful in our grant funding application to SCDC. This means that we now have funds to cover the costs of our formal incorporation. We have been drawing up our model rules and will soon be making our application to become a Community Benefit Society. The housing crisis is still making headlines, with a number of major reports, like the Letwin Review, indicating that something different needs to be done, particularly with the development of larger sites like the one on the Barracks, which is what we are trying to do.
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