This document summarizes a presentation given by Kevin Hartnett of Hastoe Housing on their partnerships with Community Land Trusts (CLTs). Some key points: - Hastoe has partnered with several CLTs in southern England to develop affordable housing. - As a housing association, Hastoe brings development expertise, management experience, quality construction, and access to funding. - Effective partnerships require early trust-building, listening to community needs, and designing homes the CLT members will focus on locally in the long run. - Developing with CLTs requires a longer timeline for consultation and design compared to Hastoe's normal process. But the results are high quality homes and long term community

1. HACT CONFERENCE
JANUARY 2015
housing association and CLT partnerships
Kevin Hartnett
Business Development Director
Hastoe Housing

2. Today
1. Quick introduction to Hastoe
2. Hastoe’s work with CLTs to date
3. Our experience
4. Conclusion

3. Hastoe vision
Sustainable homes and
sustainable communities
Innovation
Rural
communities
Environmental
sustainability

4. Operating Area
4

6. Mursley

7. West Dean

8. Brancaster

9. Langley

10. Passiv Haus: Ditchingham

11. Straw Bales

12. Hastoe’s normal community led process
• Parish council asks for assistance
• Hastoe arranges housing needs assessment
• Hastoe + PC + planners walkabout to identify site
• Hastoe prepares initial design for preferred site
• Hastoe contacts landowner
• Iterative process of community engagement and consultations,
re-design, landowner negotiations
• Planning application and construction
• Scheme opening
• So....CLTs are natural partners for us

13. CLT partners to date
• Symene CLT - West Dorset
• Marshwood CLT – West Dorset
• Upper Culme CLT – Mid Devon
• Upton Pyne CLT – East Devon
• Queen Camel CLT – South Somerset
• Cambs CLTs – Soham and more

14. What does an RP bring?
• Development expertise
• Management experience
• Quality and value for money
construction
• High design standards
• Access to funding – private and HCA
• Community led ethos

15. What’s in it for me?
• Core business
• Builds programme
• Community engagement
• High quality
• Real partnership
• Our ethos and our business

16. Some options
• Development agent – short term
interest, no management, funding
issues for CLT
• Hastoe freehold – goes against
principles
• Joint ownership – scheme size
• Joint management – size again

17. Framework
• Legal interest in land
• 125 year lease (grant conditions and
borrowing)
• Break clause issues
• Freehold with CLT
• Option agreement with Hastoe
• CLT’s homes, not Hastoe’s

18. Some lessons
• Early stages – establish credibility and trust
....motives
• Listen – both ways
• Design process
• Management options
• Sales and lettings
• Learn to let go
• CLT members the focus locally

19. Some practicals
• Legal partnership agreements
• Longer lead in time
• More consultation time on design and detail
• Funded by the LA, the HCA and others
• Market sale homes
• Rent levels
• Most CLT projects are stand alone, high
quality and require higher levels of grant
subsidy

20. Questions and challenges
• Future of capital grant
• Market sale
• Mortgage finance
• Welfare Reform
• Rural fuel poverty
• Forming CLT and developing a
scheme are different things

21. Upper Culm (Hemyock) CLT

24. Conclusion
• Time commitment but...
definitely worth it!
• Long term relationships and
• High quality homes