Toolkits
These tools are intended to act as practical tools which CLTs can use to inform their approach from start-up to development and management.
CLT Legal Toolkit
The CLT Legal Toolkit provides guidance on the legal structures that may be suitable for you in establishing a CLT. It covers many of the issues you will need to consider in establishing a legal form and highlights some of the differences that may influence which legal structure and governance arrangements are more suited to your local situation.
This toolkit does not provide a comprehensive statement of the law as it applies to the different structures and specific advice should be taken on your particular requirements at the legal formation stage. Hopefully this toolkit will empower you and your colleagues with useful information at an early stage in considering setting up the CLT and thus avoid abortive legal and consultancy costs.
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Project Feasibility Toolkit
The project feasibility toolkit allows you to create a quick calculation of how your affordable housing scheme might work: the capital cost, the income to meet it, the revenue cost and how the scheme might break even. It is composed of a series of linked spreadsheets which will give you a rough idea of the financial planning involved in developing a CLT with the purpose of providing local needs affordable housing. Please ensure you read our guidance and disclaimer below before use.
A similarly constructed spreadsheet tool which relates to assets other than housing is available on the Devon Reinvestment Service website or that of Community Land and Finance.
Accompanying the tool you will find two Word documents which will assist you in using the feasibility tool. The first of these provides guidance as to how you may go about calculating the costs and revenue of your scheme. The second document provides a worked example of this process, taking you through the various worksheets with suggested entries. The aim of this worked example is that having done this you will be more comfortable putting in details of your own proposal.
Disclaimer
This tool are for guidance only, all reasonable care and attention has been taken in preparing this spreadsheet tool but it is not legally binding and we cannot assume responsibility for any errors or omissions. It is designed to enable you to arrive quickly at an estimate and outline plan but you need to be aware that these assumptions are not based on your situation. Over the course of time you will need either to validate these assumptions or replace them with your own.
Previous Publications
Placeshaping: A Toolkit for Urban Community Land Trusts (2008)
The urban strand of the 2006-2008 Community Land Trust National Demonstration Programme was funded by the Housing Corporation and the Higher Education Funding Council for England. This report forms the final output of the programme.
The report offers a path through the maze of urban policy and legal complexities to show how Community Land Trusts can contribute to place-shaping in urban communities. As well as providing a number of tools designed to be useful to community, housing and regeneration practitioners, it also includes a number of case studies of ten projects around the country who are leading the way in community-based shared equity housing.