The Middlemarch Podcast: In Conversation With.......
by Colin McDonald
In conversation with .... people who have suceeded in creating a community led housing project. Accredited advisor Colin McDonald discovers why and how they did it in a series of podcasts based on actual experience rather than just the theory.
Episodes
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Episode Thirteen .... Peter Reveley from Appledore Community Land Trust and Karl Hine from the Aster Housing Group.
In this episode Colin hears about the housing scheme in Appledore, both from the perspective of Peter Reveley, secretary of the Appledore Community Land Trust, and from Karl Hine, Head of Community Housing at Aster who built the homes. A small village nestled on the side of a double estuary in...
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Episode Twelve ... Jeremy Holton from Parracombe Community Trust
In this episode Colin is in conversation with Jeremy Holton from the Parracombe Community Trust in North Devon and within the boundaries of Exmoor National Park. As well as proposing a small housing scheme, the Trust has provided a village shop & cafe and has taken over running the village hall.
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Episode Eleven ... various people involved in rural housing.
In this specially extended espisode released during Rural Housing Week, Colin is in conversation with several people involved in rural housing. Together they examine how to go about creating affordable housing in a rural community, the role of the rural housing enabler, working with Housing...
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Episode Ten ... Jacqui Wilding, Chair of Bronllys Well Being Park CLT
In this episode Colin is in conversation with Jacqui Wilding who is the chair of Bronllys Well Being Park Community Land Trust, based in Powys, Wales. Jacqui talks about her CLT's ambitious plans for a site currently wihtin the NHS, which include housing as part of a holistic approach to well...
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Episode Nine ... Claude Hendrickson, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Leeds Community Homes.
In this episode Colin is in conversation with Claude Hendrickson, an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Leeds Community Homes. As well as his experiences project managing the Frontline Community Self Build Project in Chapeltown, in north east Leeds, Claude also talks about being part of...
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Episode Eight ... Pamela Woods, Chair of the Dartmoor National Park Authority
In this episode Colin is in conversation with Pamela Woods, the Chair of the Dartmoor National Park Authority. Pamela talks about her experience as part of the Christow Community Land Trust working with teign Housing to build homes to Passivhaus standards within the National Park boundary. They...
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Episode seven ... Laura Moss, a partner with Wrigleys (solicitors)
In this episode Colin is in conversation with Laura Moss, a partner at Wrigleys where she specialises in providing legal advice to community led housing groups. However we mostly look at her own personal experiences as a member of a newly formed CoHousing scheme in Cumbria which aims to repurpose...
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Episode Six ... Andrew Bibby from Calder Valley Community Land Trust
In this episode Colin is in conversation with Andrew Bibby, Secretary of the Calder Valley Community Land Trust. His CLT has become a 'Registered Provider', taken over a Community Centre, raised Community Shares, built bungalows jointly with an Almshouse Trust and is aiming to save a signal box.
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Episode Five ... Scott Jennings from Student Co-op Homes
In this episode Colin is in conversation with Scott Jennings from Student Co-op Homes who talks about his experiences as a student in Nottingham and how it led to him helping to set up a national organisation to support students taking control of their own housing more locally.
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Episode Four ... Nick Reynolds from the Roman Way Tenant Management Organisation
In this episode of the podcast Colin is in conversation with Nick Reynolds from the Roman Way CIC, a Tenant Management Organisation in Birmingham, discussing his experience of tenants and leaseholders taking control of services on behalf of the City Council.
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Episode Three ..... Alistair Chisholm from the Dorchester Area Community Land Trust
In this episode Colin is in conversation with Alistair Chisholm, a champion town crier and member of the Dorchester Area Community Land Trust which plans to develop housing for local workerson a site adjacent a scheduled ancient monument.
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Episode Two ... Hazel Tilley from the Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust
In this second podcast Colin McDonald talks with Hazel Tilley from the Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust about her experience of saving and renovating victorian terraced housing in her part of Liverpool
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Episode One ... Elizabeth Maunder from the Norton-sub-Hamdon Community Land Trust
In this first podcast Colin McDonald talks with Elizabeth Maunder about the Norton-sub-Hamdon Community Land Trust in Somerset which has developed ten affordable homes for local people and taken on running the village shop and post office.
About this show
In conversation with .... people who have suceeded in creating a community led housing project. Accredited advisor Colin McDonald discovers why and how they did it in a series of podcasts based on actual experience rather than just the theory.
Hosted by
Colin McDonald