SHEFFIELD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
Affordable,
secure,
sustainable community-owned development
for the city of Sheffield
Our Principles
The Sheffield Community Land Trust sets out to deliver against the following principles:
COMMUNITY LED
Development and stewardship of places by and for its local community, not-for-profit, and prioritises their interests.
AFFORDABLE & SECURE
Housing, workspaces and other community owned assets which are genuinely affordable, with tenures which are secure.
SUSTAINABLE
Motivated by environmental, ecological and social regeneration, and supporting retrofit, circular economies, and green infrastructure.
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Latest
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February open day
We recently held an open day to connect with members, grow our working groups, and share details of the sites being investigated by our consultant team at the Union St…
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City Centre Sites
We’ve been busy over the last couple of months moving ahead with our Brownfield Housing Fund supported pilot project. We’ve now appointed a consultant team for this feasibility work, consisting…
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Live project
We’ve recently worked with students from the School of Architecture at the University of Sheffield’s Live Projects initiative. Over six weeks in October and November the group worked with us…
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Funding!
We’re excited to announce that we have been awarded funding from the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority’s Brownfield Housing Fund. This will allow us to engage consultants to assist in…
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Meet the Steering Group pt.2
Our first film, put together by University of Sheffield students Athena and Jingrou is ready with a link to view here. We asked them to interview some of our steering…
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Meet the Steering Group!
Sheffield CLT has recently hosted two students as part of the University’s Workplace Insights scheme. These paid internships allowed two undergraduate students (Jingrou, studying Digital Media & Society, and Athena,…
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March Update!
There’s been a lot going on behind the scenes recently. We’ve submitted the second stage of a bid to the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority’s Brownfield Housing Fund, and are…
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Options Workshop
Members of the CLT, along with invited guests from Sheffield City Council and South Yorkshire Housing Association met, on the 31st January to work through their strategic business case bid…
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Strategic Priorities Workshop
Members of the Sheffield CLT met on the 10th of Jan for the first of two facilitated workshops to discuss priorities and structures. The session was facilitated by Blase Lambert…
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(Re)Launch Event
SCLT held a public launch event on Saturday the 12th November 2022, as part of the Festival of Social Science. The day kicked off with a panel discussion between three…
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Sheffield CLT in The Star
Sheffield Community Land Trust Sheffield CLT was recently featured in local newspaper The Star, with founding members Cristina and Rupert speaking about the importance of including local citizens in the…
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Housing Stock Mapping
Based on the data from Sheffield City Council, we produced the following map showing the existing housing stock owned by the council. Sheffield City Council Housing Stock The base map…
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Application for Stage 1 funding from the National CLT Network Approved!
We are very excited to announce that our application for Stage 1 funding from the National CLT Network has been approved. This will give us access to support from…
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Blog Series: Naked House CLT, London
Naked House’ is a non-profit London-bred solution to unaffordable housing. The concept ensures affordability through minimalism; the Naked House is essentially a well designed ‘shell’ structure built from durable,…
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Blog Series: East London CLT – St Clement’s Hospital
St Clement’s Hospital is London’s first CLT site. The project will provide 252 new homes, 35% of which will be genuinely affordable homes and will include 58 for ‘social rent’…
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Blog Series: UK’s Urban CLT’s – Rural Urban Synthesis Society (Lewisham)
The Rural Urban Synthesis Society, a CLT based in Lewisham, was founded in 2009 and now has over 500 members. Its mission is to reduce its communities’ dependence on fossil…
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Blog Series: UK’s Urban Community Land Trusts.
An Introduction: Community Land Trusts (CLTs) are non-profit organisations established by communities to provide genuinely and permanently affordable, community-controlled housing and other assets such as social enterprises, bakeries and gardens; work…
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Sheffield CLT Working Group – Join Us!
The Sheffield CLT is a project aimed at working with local residents to turn vacant buildings and plots in the city into genuinely affordable housing for the Sheffield community. If…
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Call for involvement: join Sheffield CLT!
As we are moving forward, we will be soon applying for the support offered by the CLT Network and to other grants available for projects aiming to deliver affordable houses…
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Sheffield CLT joined the National CLT Network
A further step in the realization of the Sheffield CLT: we have recently joined the National CLT Network as a Stat Up affiliate. By joining the Network, we are supporting…
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Group #5 – 5 steps towards women-led urban development
With this projects students’ look at Wicker multicultural environment and look at the communities’ women to reinterpret their role and use of public spaces. They propose workshops, collective cooking, and…
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Group #4 – Community led Housing in Wicker
a- The group first analysed the local situation, highlighting the issues and potentials and then designed a tailored project that in the short term would see the development of a…
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Group #3 – “Live & work” in the heart of city
The group’s idea developed around the question: “would you like to ‘live and work’ in the city centre?” This simple question draws the attention to the issues of rent affordability…
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Group #2 – Wellington Street: Dynamic, Energetic, Collective
The motto of the group was: “proposing a phased community-led development for Wellington street, to achieve its potentials as a thriving city centre with identity, vitality and diversity” The group…
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Group #1 – More diversity, less isolation
As initial phase of the project the group explored possible ways to create a community of current and future residents in the Devonshire Quarter through inclusive activities. In their vision…
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Sheffield CLT is getting in motion
The Sheffield CLT project is now moving towards an ‘active’ phase in which it will engage with local community and stakeholders to discuss models, scenarios and potential routes to establish…
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The beginning: 2015 Sheffield Housing Festival
The idea of Sheffield CLT was first presented on 18th April 2015 in at the Sheffield Housing Festival organised by South Yorkshire Housing Association in the context of the Homes…
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SCLT Open Day – Find out more about our City Centre Project
Sat 03/02/24. 11am – 5pm. Union St Cafe Sheffield CLT Open Day This weekend – Saturday 3rd February 2024, 11am – 5pm. Union St Cafe (18-20 Union St, Sheffield, S1…
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