A Village on the Blackdown Hills
Welcome to Hemyock Wednesday, February 19 2020 @ 03:20 am GMT
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). A wet start tomorrow, becoming drier in the afternoon.
A windy evening with blustery and at times, heavy showers. Becoming drier for a time through the early hours, before patchy rain arrives in parts of Cornwall towards dawn. Feeling chilly in the wind and rain. Minimum Temperature 1 °C.
A wet and breezy morning as rain, at times heavy, pushes across the region. This will ease through the afternoon leaving many with bright spells and some showers. Maximum Temperature 8 °C.
Unsettled on Thursday with spells of heavy rain and strong winds. It will be somewhat drier on Friday with some bright spells before further outbreaks of rain arrive on Saturday.
Updated at: 1459 on Tue 18 Feb 2020
Sourced from the Met Office