Attercliffe: Home

Year | 2024

Location | Attercliffe, Sheffield

Client | Sheffield Community Land Trust

How can we help the Sheffield Community Land Trust get funding by creating resources that are flexible and non-specific whilst focused and impactful?

The Sheffield Community Land Trust (SCLT) is a non-profit organisation made up of like-minded people. Their aim is to provide genuinely affordable, sustainable and secure housing through community ownership and community-led development.

Our brief was to conduct research into policies, development proposals and mapping needs to investigate how CLTs get their funding. We then created a set of resources that the SCLT could use and adapt for the future. Recognising the social needs and well as the potential of the wider Attercliffe area, the SCLT are looking to develop a mixed-use brownfield site. Due to the uncertainty of whether our given site would be secured, as well as the developing nature of the construction industry following the change in government, we had to be careful with the work we produced, ensuring it remains useful and does not become obsolete.

This involved collecting a solid baseline of information - interviewing and speaking with other CLTs within the country and internationally, synthesizing a number of policies from different funders, finding patterns and highlighting similarities. We evolved this information into a set of resources such as social housing precedent posters, social media posts, mappings of the local and wider area and policy principle cards. We wanted the information to be presented in a punchy, fun and engaging way to appeal to as many different people as possible and provide the SCLT with the maximum flexibility and outreach. Reading around the subject, we found detailed real-life examples that helped illustrate our points in the real world. The resources are non-specific in that they can be applied to any site, at any level of detail - the open-ended nature of the cards make them a great conversation starter into the CLT ethos, with the possibility of delving into further detail if need be.

Credits

Student Team: 

Jemima Droney, Edward Kamal, Cheuk Yin Yiu, Charlie Fletcher, Samuel Dryell, Ioana Florescu, Aakash Bala Saravanan Mathialagan, Abdal Karim Rabi, Jessica Fisher, Sadaf Azizi, Louis Louth

Mentor:

Jo Hudson