Portland Community Land Trust
The Portland Community Land Trust website is kindly hosted by the Portland Community Partnership
Community Land Trusts are a form of community-led housing, set up and run by members of a community to develop and manage homes as well as other assets important to their area, like community enterprises, food growing or workspaces. The Land Trusts act as long-term stewards of housing, ensuring that it remains genuinely affordable, based on what people actually earn in their area, not just for now but for every future occupier.
The Trust
The first thing to do if you are a Portland resident, is to become a member of the Land Trust. This involves buying a share (or multiple shares) which cost £1 each. This gives you a vote and you can help make decisions about both the running of the organisation and projects the Trust takes on.
How do you find sites ?
By working with the community, partners, developers, public bodies, landowners and anyone willing to make land available. Before any site is progressed it must have the communities support for the development proposed.
For more general background information, visit the national Community Land Trust website.
