Calder Valley CLT Public Meeting: Decent Housing in Older Age - The Waterfront Hall
Monday 12th September
From 7.30pm
Free - All welcome
Calder Valley Community Land Trust presents the first in a series of three public meetings on the theme “Housing: It’s an Issue”, with three guest speakers sharing their ideas.
Calder Valley CLT is a member-led community benefit society with charitable status, which has been established to help address and meet housing needs in our part of Calderdale. They are part of the fast-growing community-led housing network, where local people play a leading role in solving local housing problems, creating genuinely affordable homes and stronger communities in ways that are difficult through current mainstream housing.
Calder Valley CLT’s mission is to “Work with the people of the Calder valley to hold property and create sustainable and affordable homes in vibrant communities”.
Proposed low-energy community housing project in Hebden Bridge
Based at the Town Hall, Calder Valley CLT has been responsible for saving the Victorian signal box at Hebden Bridge Train Station, maintaining Fielden Hall in Todmorden, and their proposal for twenty low-energy and low-emission community homes on land between Heptonstall Road, Bridge Lanes, and Heptonstall Road is currently being reviewed by the planning department.
The first public meeting is on Monday 12th September and will cover issues relating to secure and decent housing in older age. There will be three speakers sharing creative ways that communities can address this issue:
Jenny Pannell (Almshouse Researcher, University College London), Tina Wathern (Director of Education and Engagement, Stonewall Housing), and Maria Brenton (UKCN Ambassador on Senior Cohousing, Newground Cohousing).
The next meetings will cover other important topics - including the impact of holiday lets and Air B&Bs on local housing, and the use of alternative technology to create low-emission homes.