How can we help?

The Peninsula Villages Community Land Trust is a not-for-profit enterprise run by local people who are accountable to their community.

These people form a Board of Trustees.

Their role is to help the PVCLT form partnerships with landowners, developers and housing associations to ensure that genuine affordable housing is built as specified.

Homes and any other community assets are secured by the PVCLT in perpetuity via a statutory asset lock. As such, our homes fall outside of the Right to Buy scheme.

On PVCLT owned schemes, local connection will be considered first and applicants will be prioritised to reflect their housing need.

It is important to note that a resident from one parish will be eligible for a property that is in another parish within the area that forms PVCLT.

Our promise to you

PVCLT is formed for the benefit of the community to operate as a Community Land Trust in the parishes of Alderton, Bawdsey, Boyton, Hollesley, Shottisham and Sutton.

Our mission is to build a sustainable future for our community

Our objectives are to:

  • Provide and manage housing (including social housing) and assistance to help house people and associated facilities, amenities and services;
  • Promote regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation, by any means that the board considers reasonable and will be of benefit to the community;
  • Provide and/or maintain environmental and sympathetically designed sites of housing, buildings and or land to reflect local landscape;
  • Provide other community resources and activities in the area as the board shall determine from time-to-time for the benefit of the community.

Our vision is to:

  • Help communities thrive;
  • Be responsive to local demand;
  • Be an honest, moral, fair, transparent, caring, not-for-profit organisation with integrity;
  • Have exemplary development standards;
  • Aspire to the highest environmental standards;
  • Be an independent organisation guided by, and accountable to, its members.