Author | Lightnews

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · Jul 9

Check out the programme for Cooperation Day 2025 -
Sunday 13 July, 12-6pm at Cooperation Town Hub, London NW5 4RA. A full day of workshops on housing and all kinds of other co-ops, including the Collective Ownership Society and Gida Housing Co-op

Book free here:
lu.ma/tj0f030u

1

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · Jul 9

The latest Urban Design Group Journal has a piece on giving people control and belonging, without the challenges encountered in traditional approaches to #communityledhousing.
We're discussing our new approaches on 14 July here:
www.udg.org.uk/events/2025/...

1 1

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · Jun 10

Thanks for the updates. Put in a good word for community led housing (in all forms) if you can. It's not mentioned, and we don't have capacity to engage.

1 1

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · Jun 8

Last week, we joined public landowners and small builders at @london.gov.uk for #SmallSites knowledge sharing.

We 'pitched' #BuildBelonging, where we turn developments into strong communities with a sense of belonging and neighbourly living:
www.communityledhousing.london/build-belong...

Build Belonging - community led housing london

Community led housing can add significant social value to developments, large and small, and save on some costs.

www.communityledhousing.london

1 5

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · May 31

Shame we can't be there, but would love to talk about www.collectiveownership.co.uk

Collective Ownership

control and security for private renters with increasing affordability over time and mechanisms to ensure others benefit in future

www.collectiveownership.co.uk

1

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · May 27

Revisit: How Older Women’s Co-Housing made New Ground. What can be learnt from this still rare and radical way of living together?
www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/re...
The loss of the LOLC scheme "still stings" for us too.

Revisit: How Older Women’s Co-Housing made New Ground

The senior co-housing scheme in Barnet, north London, was developed, funded and co-designed by a group of women, working with Pollard Thomas Edwards. Almost a decade after its completion, what can be ...

www.architectsjournal.co.uk

2 8

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · May 16

We’re proud to support #CommunityLandTrusts on #WorldCLTDay2025.
Now with #CDS as a Registered Provider and the experience offering management services to #housingcoops we help enable communities like #RUSS and #NW3CLT achieve their ambitions for mixed neighbourhoods.

www.cds.coop/community-le...

1 5

Reposted by Community Led Homes

Liam K McGrath @liammcgrath.bsky.social · May 15

Great to see Leathermarket CBS Marklake Court on the Good Homes for All list. Cascaded benefits to 100s of households. www.architectsjournal.co.uk/buildings/ca...

Case study: Marklake Court by Bell Phillips

The council-funded, Bell Phillips-designed project was conceived by local residents, who formed the Leathermarket Community Benefit Society (CBS) to generate genuinely affordable new homes. Photograph...

www.architectsjournal.co.uk

1 1

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · May 14

Trellis House Co-op is a newly forming #housingcoop looking for members to live in a beautiful shared house in the West London suburbs.

Check out www.collectiveownership.co.uk/become-a-res... if you’d like to join the co-op and for more information.

Share with anyone who might be interested!

Trellis House Co-op is a newly forming co-op looking for members to live in a beautiful shared house in the West London suburbs.
https://www.collectiveownership.co.uk/become-a-resident/

1

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · May 13

'In the Shadow of the Shard' film screening 11 Jun, about Marklake Court, a #communityleddevelopment of council rent homes on existing estates, we often use as an example for councils.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/in-the-sha...
@jpcookie50.bsky.social

In the Shadow of the Shard

A film that celebrates codesign and what social housing can achieve when it embraces the true spirit of partnership with residents.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

2 2

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · May 13

Latest on the London Assembly report, Property Development Bookclub podcast, and opportunities to join Gida Housing #Co-op and Laughton Lodge #Cohousing.

Sign up for more: us12.campaign-archive.com?u=a18489721a...

Assembly report, CLH on podcast, and chances to join co-ops and cohousing.

us12.campaign-archive.com

1

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · May 9

@annapagani.bsky.social

2

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · May 5

Mariposa Grove Cohousing is a democratically-governed community in North Oakland including renters and homeowners... A brief note on learnings from the States:
www.communityledhousing.london/mariposa-gro...

1 2

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · May 4

lovely piece about Hazelmead Cohousing, Bridport by @rowanmoore.bsky.social in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

observer.co.uk/culture/arch...

4 13

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · Apr 30

Reviewing the recent London Assembly Report, we think new approaches such as Collective Ownership are essential to making community led housing quicker and easier for London's diverse communities 👇
www.communityledhousing.london/london-assem...

London Assembly backs community led housing - community led housing london

The recent report from the London Assembly Housing Committee shines a light on Housing Co-ops and Community Land Trusts. It’s encouraging to see community-led housing being taken seriously at this […]

www.communityledhousing.london

2

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · Apr 24

Widespread mandatory #Commonhold could give #communityledhousing widely understood structures to work with, and see some empowerment become mainstream.
We hope to help nuance proposals, and support group decisions on estate management, and adress conflict.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

New flats in England and Wales may soon all be commonhold. But what does it mean?

‘It’s very hands-on,’ say neighbours in a commonhold Bristol block set up 15 years ago and managed by the flat owners

www.theguardian.com

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · Apr 22

Good analysis of Graven Hill #selfbuild. Reflects our impression when we visited a couple of years ago.
Wonder what might have been with a little more #communityled in the mix, rather than a collection of individuals.

www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

‘Ours was inspired by the Empire State Building!’ The chaotic brilliance of the UK’s biggest self-build town

It is a place where a Disney-ish castle, complete with turrets, sits near a scaly ‘pangolin’ house. But is Graven Hill now straying from the DIY vision that made its anarchic jumble of styles so mesme...

www.theguardian.com

1

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · Apr 18

Easter podcast listening! covering what #communityledhousing is, what makes it unique, how it addresses affordability, misconceptions, barriers, and how it could scale without loosing the diverse resident control that makes it so powerful.

www.communityledhousing.london/property-dev...

Property Development Book Club podcast - community led housing london

Our director, Levent Kerimol joined Hanna Afolabi from Mood & Space and Selasi Setufe MBE to talk about community led housing for the Property Development Book Club podcast. The conversation […]

www.communityledhousing.london

1 1

Reposted by Community Led Homes

Architects' Journal @news.architectsjournal.co.uk · Apr 17

Not enough cash and too many barriers for community-led housing, Khan warned

www.architectsjournal.co.uk

1 2

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · Mar 26

As if to demonstrate the impact of these letters, the Government announced a £20m loan fund for community led housing delivery yesterday.
www.gov.uk/government/n...

We will be looking at the details of this for projects approaching construction.

Government paves the way for local people to build more homes

The government has announced a £20 million investment to support the delivery of community-led housing.

www.gov.uk

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · Mar 26

The national bodies for CLH worked together to respond to the Government Spending Review consultation in Feb.
We're encouraging CLH groups of all kinds to contact their MPs in April, adapting these templates to their group structure and priorities: www.communitylandtrusts.org.uk/news-and-eve...

1

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · Mar 26

We're looking to make some changes to our online identity to reflect the new relationship, but we will continue to support community led housing as ever.

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · Mar 26

This will mean some exciting changes, allowing us to pursue new ways of growing community led housing, exploring partnerships with community groups as a Registered Provider of Social Housing, and supporting projects both within and beyond Greater London.

1

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · Mar 26

We have been hosted by CDS Co-operatives www.cds.coop over the past seven years, and from April we will become an integral part of CDS' mission to make community led housing more widespread.

1

Community Led Homes @clhlondon.bsky.social · Mar 26

The Commission was launched with a roundtable and a @lse-sticerd-case.bsky.social report setting the scene for live projects we'll be supporting and learning from:
www.communityledhousing.london/wp-content/u...

Learn more about the Commission: www.communityledhousing.london/cish-commiss...

www.communityledhousing.london

1 1