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Council support for community led housing
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This database is owned by the National CLT Network, (c) March 2021.

It contains data obtained by Freedom of Information requests on local authorities across England and Wales, showing their level of support, and kinds of support, for Community Led Housing. The tables below summarise their responses. The 'Responses' tab shows the councils' responses and 'Final Scores' shows the scores they earned compared with the same analysis conducted in 2019.

Note: The score for local authorities in this dataset are based solely on the answers they provided to our Freedom of Information request, and do not factor in anecdotal information known by the National CLT Network. Only completed actions were attributed towards a score: if a council said it had plans to change policy, to dispose of a site to a community led housing group or to award grant funding, those plans would not factor into their score but might have been carried out since the council's response was issued.
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Methodology Note
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A score of 1-3, with 1 being the most supportive of community led housing, was assigned to each council
based on their responses to our FOI request. Our scoring guidelines were as follows:
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1Actively 'doing' CLH
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Showing definite intention of supporting CLH
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No activity (weighted towards policies supporting CLH)
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Commitment levels among councils
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2020 Council count2020:% of those who responded2019: Council count2019: % of those who responded% Change 2019-2020
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High (Score of 1)5418%207%11%
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Medium (Score of 2)10133%5419%14%
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Low (Score of 3)14949%20373%-24%
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Total that responded304100%277100%
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Improvement of indivdual councils
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Council count
% of Councils responding both years
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Responded both years244100%
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Councils who improved 2019-20209137%
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Councils whostayed same 2019-202014057%
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Councils who backtracked 2019-2020135%
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Number and % of councils that have supported CLH
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Total% of all councils
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Supportive CLH policies9531%
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Given CLH grants/loans8729%
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Disposed of or leased land3211%
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Number of grants, loans and land disposals/leases for CLH
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Total
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Grants/loans given605
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Land disposals/leases181
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Response rate
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Councils approached375343
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Councils responded 304277
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% Response rate81%81%
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