Charities Seek Landlords for Right to Build Schemes

A group of charities is looking for five housing organisations to bid for government money for community development schemes.  HACT, Locality and Urban Forum have been commissioned by the government to deliver a service to support community right to build projects and want housing associations to get on board.  Community right to build was introduced in the Localism Act last year. It enables local people to bring forward small scale community-led developments if more than 50 per cent of local people vote in favour in a community referendum.  The HCA has £17.5 million to support communities through the process, and HACT wants to support five partnerships of housing associations working with local community groups or tenants and residents associations who want to pull together a case for funding for the HCA.  The help will be in the form of support from a range of experts in the field of community housing and planning.  Read more on the HACT website.