Resources
Below are useful guides and resources to help you at the different stages of your community led housing project. We’ve also signposted to other websites that might help and inspire you.
Setting up a group stage
- Affordable rural housing: a practical guide for parish councils- by the Rural Housing Alliance
- A Planners Guide to Community Led Housing
- National Community Land Trust Network
- Community First Yorkshire’s Effective Community Engagement toolkit
- DIY Committee Guide
Site stage
- The Self Build Portal
- Land registry site
- A Planners Guide to Community Led Housing
- Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
- Build with Nature
- How to find land
Brownfield registers:
Plan stage
- Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
- National Parks: North Yorkshire Moors and Yorkshire Dales
- National Planning Policy Framework
Local plans:
Build Stage
Federation of Master Builders (FMB)
Working with housing associations