Press Release – 2 October 2018 HOW DO YOU GET A COMMUNITY-LED HOUSING PROJECT READY FOR PLANNING? ONE DAY WORKSHOP EXPLAINS THE PROCESS STEP-BY-STEP RUSS, the Community Land Trust behind an innovative 33 home affordable self-build project in Lewisham, is
It’s all about the groundworks!
It’s been a few weeks since we last blogged about what we have been up to. We bit off more than we could chew with promising weekly updates. We’re hoping to blog every 2-3 weeks from now on depending on
What the F10?
The weeks are flying by, and sometimes it feels like we are getting nowhere. So it’s been really useful to write these blog posts to look back and remind ourselves what we have achieved. Once again, we’ve been quite busy!
Post-its, post-its and more post-its
We have had a very busy week with several meetings and workshops. It feels great to get some momentum behind the project again, we hope we can maintain it now! What we’ve done this week On Monday we met with
Budgets and blue roofs
This last week has been a little quieter for the community hub team. Lots of people are away so it’s been a challenge to get things moved on. We have made a little progress however and are planning a few
A week in the life of the community hub team
We’ve been having a think about how best to keep everyone up to date with what we are doing on the community hub project. Email lists are so unreliable as they are nearly always out of date, and they also
RUSS APPOINTS OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
Press release – 23 July 2018: PIONEERING LONDON-BASED COMMUNITY LAND TRUST APPOINTS OPERATIONS DIRECTOR RUSS, the Lewisham-based Community Land Trust behind an innovative 33 home affordable self build project, has appointed Dinah Roake as its first Operations Director. Dinah has
RUSS featured in Evening Standard and South London Press
In June, we announced that the most innovative low cost self-build housing project ever undertaken in London had taken a huge step forward with the formal granting of planning permission. Here’s how the press responded…. Lewisham council has granted planning
Planning permission granted for London’s largest ever affordable self-build housing project
Press release – 8 June: PLANNING PERMISSION GRANTED FOR LONDON’S LARGEST EVER AFFORDABLE SELF-BUILD HOUSING PROJECT The most innovative low cost self-build housing project ever undertaken in London has taken a huge step forward with the formal granting of planning
Plans approved for innovative self-build training facility and community space in Ladywell
Press release – 8 June: PLANS APPROVED FOR INNOVATIVE SELF-BUILD TRAINING FACILITY AND COMMUNITY SPACE IN LADYWELL London’s first training facility for would-be community self-builders was been granted planning permission by Lewisham Council on Thursday 7 June. The innovative facility
