Friday, 4 July 2025

Brent Community Land Trust Consultation Days - July 12h and July 17th

Member Newsletter

June 2025

Welcome to Brent Community Land Trust's June Newsletter!

Our June newsletter is a little late 😅 , but that’s because so much has been happening, we wanted to make sure we included all the latest updates.

As always, please get in touch with us if you want to find out more.

Cabinet Approval

In April 2025, Brent Council's Cabinet granted Brent CLT an extension until March 2026 to develop proposals for the Brentfield Road site, NW10.

The Cabinet welcomed and supported our commitment towards encouraging and supporting community-led housing projects in the borugh

Learn more

July Drop in Sessions

We want to hear from you!

We're now at an exciting stage, and want to hear your feedback and ideas about our plans to deliver affordable housing.

Drop in and meet us and our architects, Bell Phillips .

When:

Saturday, Jul 12, 2025 | 10:00am - 1:00pm

Thursday, Jul 17, 2025 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Where:

Corner of Gloucester Close/Stonebridge Park, NW10

If you can't attend in person you can still participate by completing our online survey.

Introducing Sapphire Independent Housing

We have now identifed a preferred Registered Provider, Sapphire Independent Housing, who will work with us to develop and manage our first scheme.

Sapphire is a small provider, but manage several schemes across London. Their mission is “providing homes to improve lives and enable people to live independently”.

Brent CLT Board met with Sapphire in February 2025 to agree ways of working and next steps, and we are looking forward to working closely with a provider so aligned to our values.

Find out more about Sapphire

New Board Members

We are really pleased to have recruited two new board members to Brent CLT

Edith and Cristina bring a great deal of skills and experience to their roles, which will help drive forward the work of Brent CLT.

You can read more on our website

Our current timeline

In June 2025, we signed a grant agreement with the Greater London Authority (GLA). This means we now have funding for the technical and professional support needed to prepare and submit a planning application. Our aim is to submit a planning application by late Autumn 2025.