On the 23rd of September West Berkshire Parish Councils, District Councillors and land owners had the opportunity to learn about the different types of community led developments that are now available.
CCB organised the event in partnership with West Berkshire Adult and Community Learning, and the Housing Team at West Berkshire Council. Speakers included:
- Councillor Roger Croft, Lead Member for Housing introduced the day
- Arlene Kersley, Rural Housing Enabler at CCB spoke about rural exception sites and the Community Right to Build that allows communities to grant their own planning permission for certain schemes that benefit the community.
- Stuart Roberts from Sovereign Housing spoke about SHAs massive amount of experience developing exception sites and about new legislation that permits a very small number of houses on such a scheme to be developed to sell on the open market in order to finance the affordable homes (cross-subsidy). This helps to save tax payer money on housing development subsidies.
- Hannah Fleetwood from the National Community Land Trusts spoke about the snowballing number of CLTs springing up across the country
- Edward Crookes from Englefield Estates gave a land owners perspective on developing to meet community objectives
- and Calum Taylor from NACSBA spoke about the popularity of self –build and custom build developments across the UK.
Participants found the day very informative and at least one group that attended will be exploring how they might make use of some of the possible solutions to develop homes in their own community.
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