Our vision of creating sustainable community-led neighbourhoods and truly affordable homes is governed by 10 guiding principles. If you support our aims we’d love you to get involved with making them a reality.
- RUSS will create socially, environmentally and economically sustainable neighbourhoods in the city.
- Our neighbourhoods should balance the interests of residents, the wider community and the Council as landowner.
- RUSS should build truly affordable homes.
- Decisions that affect our neighbourhoods should be under the control of residents.
- Our developments should be embedded in the local community and include space for community use.
- The neighbourhoods should reflect the local population with a mix of families, couples and single people, both young and old, and with a range of incomes.
- RUSS neighbourhoods should not only reduce environmental impacts by efficiently using energy and building materials, but should proactively create resources of power, water and food.
- Residents should have the opportunity to be involved in the design, construction and management of neighbourhoods.
- RUSS developments should create opportunities for training in organising and building for residents and others.
- Our projects should be self-financing with robust financing and delivery systems.