CLAS Cymru helps in £1.1m Big Lottery win for Newtown asset transfer

News item first posted on: 19/02/18

CLAS Cymru, the community land initiative managed by the Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens,  has helped support a consortium of locally based volunteers, community enterprises and organisations in Newtown, Powys, to secure a £1.1 million in funding from the Big Lottery’s Community Asset Transfer program.

The Going Green for a Living consortium came together in response to Newtown and Llanllwchaiarn Town Council’s call to look at new and more sustainable ways to manage the open spaces of Newtown i.e. how could the community generate a better living from our green and blue assets?

Key landowners & partners in the project, Powys County Council and Welsh Government, have offered long term secure tenure of around 130 acres of land, to be held in a Community Land Trust, making this one of the largest community asset transfers of amenity land in Wales. 

CLAS Cymru coordinator Lucie Taylor said: “We are really pleased to provide support to such a pioneering project that enables the Newtown Community to secure more land for growing local food”.

For more details go to the Community Land Advisory website