SATURDAY January 11, 2020

RUSS is a volunteer-led Community Land Trust based in south London, founded in 2009 with the mission of creating sustainable neighbourhoods and genuinely affordable homes.  In June 2018, RUSS was granted planning permission for 33 homes at Church Grove, Ladywell, south east London. It will be London's largest affordable self-build housing project. 

RUSS has set up a School of Community-led Housing offering individuals, community groups and housing professionals the chance to learn from RUSS’s many years of experience and gain information about how to set up and develop a community-led housing project.

This one-day workshop is the third module in our education programme, through which we share our experience and learning since setting up the organisation as a Community Land Trust in 2009.  The third module in a programme of 6, this workshop covers the actions required to apply for planning permission for a housing project.

Our workshops are informal and interactive, with practical exercises, and we try to allow time to meet like-minded people, housing professionals and groups already involved in CLH projects.

Modules 3A and 3B are suitable for groups who have identified a site or are advanced in considering specific potential sites. They can also be helpful for those seeking to get an overview of the complete housing project, and an understanding of the different stages involved.

Topics for this Workshop 3A: 

Getting Permission...RUSS's experience of securing planning permission

• How to be a Client - developing a project brief, establishing a project board and team, setting budgets

• Recruiting the Resident Group & establishing an Allocations Policy

• The Co-Design process

• The Planning Process - Permissions, Conditions & Obligations

• RUSS’s experience

• Individual & group exercises 

RUSS team for the day:

Emma Gittus, Director at Bringelly, community-led housing project specialist, and former RUSS project manager

Megan Ancliffe & Gordon O'Connor-Read, Russ members and future Church Grove residents

Chris Carthy, Architect and current RUSS project manager

Anne Kennedy, workshop organiser, RUSS School Board co-optee

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Attending Modules 1 & 2 before this workshop is advisable.

If you would like to attend Module 1: Getting Started...RUSS's experience of setting up a group, which covers the early stages of a project, please see our website for details of the next workshop which will take place on Saturday 8 February 2020.

Module 2: Getting Moving...finding a viable site will run on Saturday14 March 2020.

Module 3A: Getting Permission...securing planning permission will repeat on Saturday 25 April, and (to be confirmed) Module 3B: Getting Serious...preparing to start on site will run on Sunday 26 April 2020.

You can read more about our events on www.theruss.org