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Working Together for Community-led Housing

September 11, 2025September 11, 2025
SOSCH and CHT team standing at conference table with flyers at Community Land Scotland conference

Back in May, Laura Dalgetty and Méabh Weldon of South of Scotland Community Housing (SOSCH) and Elizabeth Taggart of Communities … Read full story

Small-scale, big impact: why community-led development deserves more support

January 28, 2025December 16, 2022
SOSCH - Closeburn and residents

This is the last in a series of monthly blogs about community-led housing in Scotland, jointly written by Mike Staples, Chief … Read full story

Amending Land Reform legislation could unlock more community-led homes

December 2, 2022
Langholm Moor

This blog is part of a monthly series about community-led housing in Scotland shared by the Communities Housing Trust and South of Scotland … Read full story

Helping reverse a mass exodus: community-led repopulation in rural areas

November 8, 2022
Residents of Closeburn

This blog is part of a monthly series about community-led housing in Scotland, jointly written by Mike Staples, Chief Executive … Read full story

Building new skills and homes: a community-led approach to boosting rural trades

September 20, 2022
Houses and gardens in Ardgeal, Scotland

This blog is part of a monthly series about community-led housing in Scotland, jointly written by Mike Staples, Chief Executive … Read full story

Community-led across the continent: Scotland’s work in Europe

January 28, 2025July 13, 2022
The European CLT Network in Brussels, April 2022

This blog is part of a monthly series about community-led housing in Scotland, jointly written by Mike Staples, Chief Executive … Read full story

Homes for local workers: a community-led solution

May 31, 2022May 31, 2022
CCDC directors Andrew Abrahams, Dannie Onn & Project Coordinator Carrie Seymour survey the Scalasaig site (Credit Caitlin NcNeill)

This blog is part of a monthly series about community-led housing in Scotland, jointly written by Mike Staples, Chief Executive … Read full story

SOSCH visits Brussels for the development of a new European CLT Network – April 2022

May 12, 2022
Indépendance project, Molenbeek April 2022

SOSCH happily returned to foreign travel last month for a two-day meeting of partners between members of the new European … Read full story

In with the old: communities recycling buildings for homes and the planet

April 27, 2022April 27, 2022

This blog is part of a monthly series about community-led housing in Scotland, jointly written by Mike Staples, Chief Executive … Read full story

SOSCH Team on Tour!

April 27, 2022April 21, 2022

In March, with the spring sun shining, the SOSCH team went on a road trip to visit some of the … Read full story

A Chance for Radical Change: National Planning Framework 4 Everyone

April 27, 2022March 28, 2022

This blog is part of a monthly series about community-led housing in Scotland, jointly written by Mike Staples, Chief Executive … Read full story

A human rights approach to planning: why community-led development should be centre-stage

April 27, 2022March 8, 2022

This blog is part of a monthly series about community-led housing in Scotland, jointly written by Mike Staples, Chief Executive … Read full story

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