A Village on the Blackdown Hills
Welcome to Hemyock Tuesday, May 30 2023 @ 10:33 am UTC
Upper Culm Community Land Trust
The Parishes of Hemyock and Clayhidon have come together to form a Community Land Trust (CLT) under the chairmanship of Heather Stallard. The CLT was officially set up on 31st March 2012 as a Community Benefit Society, registered with the Financial Services Authority. CLTs are not-for-profit organisations set up by local people to help improve or protect their village or neighbourhood. Run by volunteers, the CLT can develop housing or other assets at permanently affordable levels for long-term community benefit. A CLT does this in three ways:
· by owning, managing and developing things such as land, homes, shops, pubs, allotments and even schools, all at cost price with no profit margin on top;
· by holding these things in trust so that they are affordable and available for future generations;
· by being accountable to local people.
The Upper Culm CLT’s assets are kept for the benefit of the community in perpetuity.
CLTs are democratic; their membership being open to all members of the village or neighbourhood. Benefits of membership include invitations to CLT meetings, the chance once a year to vote on a Board of Directors, access to newsletters and other communications and the opportunity to participate in more specialist working groups to use your skills to support the future of our community.
Summaries of the CLT meetings:
This is the Lettings Allocation Policy for UCCLT Housing, the housing management company of the Upper Culm Community Land Trust. UCCLT Housing is purchasing eight homes on the Lower Greenfield estate south of Griffin Close in summer 2019. Four will be available for affordable rent, two for shared equity ownership and two for sale at a discounted price (leasehold). Staying settled this week with further warm sunshine at times.
Early patchy cloud thinning and clearing to leave an increasingly bright and sunny day. Generally feeling warm despite a breeze, however locally rather windy and cooler in some coastal areas. Maximum temperature 22 °C.
Clear at first. Cloud arriving in eastern counties this evening, and some filtering west during the overnight period. A little milder than recent nights, and still rather breezy in places. Minimum temperature 7 °C.
Much of the region will probably start off quite cloudy. Slowly brightening up with warm sunny spells breaking through by the afternoon. Feeling a little cooler, especially in the breeze. Maximum temperature 21 °C.
Staying dry with high pressure remaining dominant. Plenty of strong sunshine but some cloud is likely at times, mainly during the mornings. Warm days, albeit cool overnight. Breezy at times.
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Sourced from the Met Office