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Land Trust Annual Review 2019

Chief Executive’s report

A year of delivery

This year has been a year The Land Trust is
passionate about
of delivery, following some creating green
spaces where
excellent development people want to live,
work in previous years. work and play.

We are delighted to report
that six new sites transferred
to our management
portfolio, each with unique opportunities and
challenges. They also reflect the different variety
of work that we carry out and I truly believe that
we are the only organisation in the country that is
delivering the breadth of work that we do.

Building new communities

Three of our new sites to come under
management are residential service charge.
Our commitment to delivering charitable
impact to these new communities will be high
priority for the Land Trust going forward.

This is particularly important when demand for
new housing is at an all-time high and a substantial
number of new large scale developments are
coming through the planning system.
Since the late 1940’s the country has been
successful in building new homes –where we have
failed is in creating resilient, healthy sustainable
new communities. The failure to create a sustainable green
The country is littered with post-war estates environment in and around these developments is
that have become synonymous with anti-social one of the main causes of community breakdown.
behaviour, crime and community breakdown. We firmly believe that our placekeeping
Some of this was down to housing quality but philosophy tackles these issues, bringing new
much of it is down to a failure to create and residents and communities together and helping
maintain environments that people can relate to. turn houses into homes.

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