Shadow housing minister Grant Shapps set out his stall at today's community land trusts conference.The Conservatives' ideas about local housing trusts would be to enable people who want to build local homes for local people to do so, free from excessive bureaucratic interference.
Listening to the likes of David Brown from High Bickington in Devon, you can see how the regulations (or the way officials interpret them) can frustrate the democratic decisions of local councils and the expressed wishes of communities.
But should we see this as another pitched battle between the state and the individual? Others, such as Philippe Castaing from Brixton Green, made it clear that his local council was highly supportive of his community land trust plans.
Watch the short video interviews from today's community land trusts conference and see what you think. You can see them here, or there's one below:
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Tuesday, June 30
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