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Callan community-led housing is ‘citizenship at its best’
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A housing development in Callan has been highlighted as one in a Europe-wide movement towards ‘community-led housing’.
The aim of this new kind of community is to “imagine the best possible pattern for housing in a new era of rights and social inclusion.”
President Michael D Higgins has written the foreword to this report, saying these new kinds of developments merit the support of policy makers at a time when “it is abundantly clear that radical solutions to housing provision are needed urgently given the magnitude of a housing crisis that is not abating.”
£718,000 for affordable homes in South Cumbria
23/12/2020
An ambitious scheme to provide much-needed affordable housing in a village community has been backed to the tune of £718,244 through grants approved by South Lakeland District Council.
The authority has agreed a scheme grant of £350,000 and an infrastructure grant of £368,244 to the Levens Community Project.
The money has come from the council’s Community Housing Fund, set up after the Government provided £2.36m to the authority in 2017 to help tackle the problem of high levels of second home ownership.
The fund can be used to enable the delivery of new community-led housing schemes through new build, reuse of existing buildings and bringing empty homes back into use.