Eastern Community Homes We support peoples’ aspirations and ambitions with the development of community-led housing in Cambridgeshire.

Our support offer is to your town, parish, neighbourhood or group.

Manor Farm, Stretham and Wilburton Community Land Trust © CAPCA Getting registered to receive information Free dedicated 1:1 group support Our offer Our new website is: easterncommunityhomes.com. This has information on where an We are working with qualified community-led housing Enablers and Technical Advisors at the Combined Authority, alongside our own interested individual or group can register to receive further updates on community-led advisors, who are available to provide 1:1 dedicated support to groups that wish to consider or who are pursuing a community-led of support housing support with opportunities to join online networks and events. Through registering housing project. This offer of support is open to any groups within Cambridgeshire and Peterborough regardless of the stage in the Eastern Community Homes has with your name and email here, we can keep you updated with any developments in community-led housing process they are at. Enablers can speak with individuals or groups via video conferencing or phone during these been funded by the Ministry of community-led housing across the East of England. Registration allows you to have next few months. access to an online network of community-led housing groups to share learning and Housing, Community and Local If you require a 1:1 scoping session with an advisor, please complete this form and we will get back in touch to make the necessary Government (MHCLG) to support peer expertise, as well as a series of useful online events to be held in March 2021. arrangements to get started. your community in a number of We can help at all stages of the community-led housing process to get homes built. ways to bring forward a range of Building networks community-led housing projects. We are working with the Eastern Community Homes and the Combined Authority will offer to strengthen your Site relationship with Local Authorities through county-based enabling networks and the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Build Combined Authority to provide a Eastern Community Homes Local Authority Community-Led Housing Partnership. We Initial engagement Finding a site – developing a site brief, team of experienced and qualified will also assess Housing Associations, developers and landowners who are interested in investigating options community-led housing enablers working with community-led housing groups. Initial telephone call Acquisition options Contract management that are ready to start to work with or virtual meeting Valuation, financial feasibility and viability Services provision you at whatever stage your project Eastern Community Homes Small Grants Fund Develop a bespoke might be. Even if you are just proposal of support Pre-planning advice Build expertise considering if community-led As we realise that sometimes, small amounts of grant funding can make a big difference housing is right for you, then the in unlocking what is needed for a group to proceed, we have established an Eastern Community Homes Small Grant Fund. A maximum grant of £500 will be available for Management – allocations, resources available through Group development and recruitment Understanding local planning policy Eastern Community Homes and £ each group we advise to cover things such as publicity materials, incorporation costs, resales, relationships with technical support from the surveys, software licenses and legal advice. A simple application form will be available. Training, networks and conferences Agreeing contracts housing associations and the local authority Combined Authority will be helpful. Legal options Value engineering Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority Business planning (business Build options Maintenance There are a number of plans, action plans) Start-up Grant Fund Scheme design ways we can help: As part of our commitment to enabling new community-led housing groups to come Long-term sustainability forward, the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority have a grant fund of Group support for schemes £5000 per group. This grant is available to emerging community-led housing groups to Plan help pay for the costs associated with legal incorporation, early stage engagement work, and other start-up costs. Live

Our offer of support Our offer of support About Eastern About the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Community Homes Combined Authority What is the definition of community-led housing? Eastern Community Homes has been The Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority is made up of seven constituent local formed to act as an independent, councils: Cambridgeshire County Council, Peterborough City Council, Cambridge City Council, • The community is integrally involved throughout the process in key decisions not-for profit Hub for community-led East Cambridgeshire District Council, Fenland District Council, Huntingdonshire District like what is provided, where and for who housing in the East of England. It aims Council, and South Cambridgeshire District Council. The Combined Authority is led by elected • The community benefits. The benefits of the scheme to the local area and/or to increase the supply of Mayor, James Palmer. specified community group are clearly defined and protected in perpetuity • The community has a long-term role in the ownership, stewardship, or community-led housing, primarily Community-led housing has been championed by Mayor Palmer and the Community Housing management of the homes affordable homes, to meet local needs team at the Combined Authority provide ongoing dedicated technical support to community-led • Community-led housing is different from the rural housing enabler programme in the area covered by the Hub and housing groups across the area. support community groups in fulfilling which will continue but builds on this experience and puts communities in the their visions for community-led driving seat of any initiatives. There are hundreds of examples of community-led housing in urban as well as rural settings across the country and a Hub will housing, whether this is through Marmalade Lane, Cambridge Cohousing Limited support the growth of projects in the towns and cities across the region Community Land Trusts (CLTs), © David Butler cooperatives, co-housing schemes, self-help housing, groupself-build, or almshouses. The support will be carried out through a team of rural housing enablers and Models of accredited community-led housing advisors at Eastern Community community-led housing Homes and the Combined Authority. While the advisors will provide the • Self-build and custom-build housing majority of the support, we also have • Co-operatives, ‘mutual’ and tenant management bodies networks of technical advisors (such as • Community land trusts and development trusts architects), housing associations, and • Self-help housing and empty dwellings Local Authorities to offer advice in their • Co-housing neighbourhoods specific areas. • Eco-housing, ‘low-impact’ settlements and ecovillages Swaffham Prior Community Land Trust • Almshouses and charities Thrift Community Land Trust, Soham © CAPCA © Richard Fraser Photography

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If you would like more details on how Eastern Community Homes can help you, please contact your accredited advisers below: KINGS LYNN & WEST NORFOLK BROADLAND GREAT Eastern Community Homes contact YARMOUTH Jenna Brame, Rural & Community-Led Housing Development Officer PETERBOROUGH Eastern Community Homes BRECKLAND NORWICH E: [email protected] FENLAND SOUTH NORFOLK Eastern T: 01353 865022 Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority Contact Emily Mulvaney, Community Housing Programme Manager Community Homes: EAST Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Authority HUNTINGDONSHIRE CAMBRIDGESHIRE E: [email protected] T: 07766 991145 We do housing differently. WEST SUFFOLK MID SUFFOLK CAMBRIDGE EAST SUFFOLK

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