Stephen Hill

I’m an independent public interest practitioner in planning & housing development, advising central & local government, developers, community housing & land ownership groups. My advocacy of co-production & community ownership began in 1976, supporting a self-commissioned tenant management cooperative new build housing development for a London council, working with Tony Gibson, inventor of ‘Planning for Real’. In 2014/17, I visited the USA & Canada as a Churchill Fellow to examine different approaches to the co-production by the ‘state’ & citizens of housing & neighbourhood development, using community organising through Community Land Trusts (CLTs) to advocate for better housing & increased democratic participation in local decision-making. I write about all this at http://stephenhillfutureplanning.blogspot.com/. I’m an associate of the international Center for CLT Innovation https://cltweb.org/about/ We are keen to use its resources to help more communities democratise land ownership.