St John\u2019s Church in Keswick in the Lake District made half a hectare of land next to its graveyard that was too stony and waterlogged for burials available to the town\u2019s then newly-formed Community Housing Trust. <\/p>\n
The land now has 11 three-bedroomed houses and the trust has gone on to build a further 30 homes in the town on other plots. The latest four \u2013 three, three-bedroomed houses and one two-bedroom house \u2013 were built on land provided by the Methodist Church on the site of a demolished church hall.<\/p>\n
Around half the homes built by the trust are for shared ownership and the other half are let out at rents that are truly affordable in perpetuity \u2013 measured in relation to local earnings, not market rents.<\/p>\n
Bill Bewley, the Chair of Keswick Community Housing Trust, believes that up to 200 people have been housed as a result of the trust\u2019s work so far with further potential plots of land for housing being explored. <\/p>\n
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