Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes: A Guide to Collaborative Practice in the UK

In Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes, Martin Field explores the ways in which people and communities across the UK have been striving to create the homes and neighbourhood communities they want.

Giving context to contemporary practices in the UK, the book examines 'self-build housing' and 'community-led housing', discussing the commonalities and distinctions between these in practice, and what could be learned from other initiatives across Europe.

Individual methods and models of local practice are explored - including cohousing, cooperatives, community land trusts, empty homes and other intentional communities - and an examination is made of what has constrained such initiatives to date and how future policies and practice might be shaped.

Author: Martin Field
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 07/24/2020
Pages: 172
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.37d
ISBN: 9781447344391

About the Author
Martin Field has been associated with projects in the community-led housing sector for many years, including research initiatives at Northampton and De Montfort Universities. He is currently Senior Facilitator with East Midlands Community Led Housing.