SATURDAY December 12, 2020 on ZOOM

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. We plan to start on site in spring 2021 and estimate a move-in date for residents in autumn 2022.

RUSS has set up a School of Community-led Housing, through which we share our experience and learning from 2009. This on-line workshop is the second module in our education programme of 5 topics.

Topics for this Workshop:

- Project design and stages

- Accessing Land and land agreements

- Feasibility & Financial Viability of a project and site

RUSS team for the day:

Chris Carthy, Architect and former RUSS project manager

Anurag Verma, Architect and RUSS Chair

Moderator:

Cypren Edmunds, RUSS member, events organiser & communications

This session covers the actions required to take a community-led housing (CLH) project from a vision to the pre-planning stage, focussing particularly on the feasability and viablity of the Church Grove project, and how this can be applied by others on similar projects. The content is most suitable for those with a specific site in mind, or in the process of researching and assessing a number of sites.

Attendees will receive a recording of the session as well as a copy of the speakers presentation.

Our workshops are informal and interactive, an opportunity to meet like-minded people, housing professionals and those already involved in Commmunity-led housing projects.

ZOOM links will be sent to attendees in due course. If you have any questions, please email school@theruss.org

Attending Module 1 before this workshop is advisable but not essential. 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, the next workshops which will take place on Saturday 30 January and Saturday 6 February 2021, online on ZOOM. Booking will be available in December.

www.theruss.org