Status of ECLT

ECLT became a community benefit society (non-charitable) incorporated under the FCA, register number 7425 on November 3rd. This required the election of a Board of Trustees at a Special General Meeting in December and the subsequent election of a Chair and Vice Chair:

 Chair:       Tom Morrison     Vice Chair:  Cllr Muriel Bullock

 Secretary:  Tom Low           Treasurer:  Lynne Farnden

 Trustees:  Alan Brasier,  Cllr Alison Loverage,  Cllr Sharon Wells,  Paul Mannings,  Martin Elliot

 Co-optee:  Cllr John Jones

We now have over 80 members from the parish and encourage anyone who wishes to support us in  our objectives to join for a lifetime membership of £1.00.  Every member has a vote at General Meetings.

 Progress on Feasibility Study for 23 houses

The project to build 23 homes with affordable rent is now at pre-application stage with Stroud DC.  This stage involves meetings with various specialists and the gathering of technical data.

We have commissioned six preliminary reports and have received positive feedback to date. We await air quality analysis and have completed the following :

Ground Survey,   Environmental /Ecological Analysis,  Highways Access,  Topographical Survey,   and Acoustic Survey

Our architect has used this information together with our Housing Needs Survey to provide a first-cut layout which we have considered and provided feedback to him for modification. We have asked for three alternative layouts, which we will bring to the Parish Council, Stroud DC planners and most importantly the Eastington community.

 

Funding

To preserve local sources of funding, most of our consultancy expenses are coming from a £9,750 government grant, with a top-up from the Parish Solar Fund of £2,000. Further grants are available to take us up to Planning Approval, following which a Housing Association (Aster) will organise the funding for the build stages.  

ECLT Board will meet on 2nd and 16th February and 2nd and 16th March in the Village Hall at 7.00pm.

The agendae will be available on our new website  www.eastingtonclt.uk

As with the Parish Council, the public are welcome to attend as observers with one item for open questions.

Tom Low, Secretary ECLT