The funding will support community-led housing using:
- revenue funding to support community led housing development which will include community engagement support and set up costs, legal advice and predevelopment work.
- capital funding to support the delivery of specific community led housing schemes across North Yorkshire.
The purpose of this framework is to set the criteria for the allocation of this funding.
This is not an open grant fund, and it will only be allocated for identified community-led schemes to ensure the successful delivery of those schemes. Allocations from the fund must meet the following basic principles for a community led housing scheme:
- A requirement that the community must be integrally involved throughout the process in key decisions (what, where, for who). They don’t necessarily have to initiate and manage the development process, or build the homes themselves, though some may do.
- A presumption in favour of community groups that are taking a long-term formal role in ownership, management, or stewardship of the land/homes.
- A requirement that the benefits to the local area and/or specified community must be clearly defined and legally protected in perpetuity.
- The proposed scheme brings added value, it supports the delivery of the Council’s housing strategy and meets local need.
- Proposals can demonstrate deliverability of schemes (not applicable for Stage 1 funding).
- Demonstrating value for money.
- The proposal supports the North Yorkshire Council Climate Change Strategy.
We will not allocate funding to schemes that do not meet these basic principles.