Marshfield Community Land Trust
RECENT NEWS
- WINTER IS COMING BRINGING COLD WEATHER AND RISING BILLS . COME TO MARSHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTRE ON MONDAY DECEMBER 1st at 7.30pm to an MCLT Energy Working Group event that will help with questions about how to find out where your house is leaking heat, and reducing your utility bills.
2. WHEATFIELD BARNS 10 rental properties have now been advertised and allocated.
WHAT IS MARSHFIELD CLT ?
MCLT is a local Community Benefit Society. It can hold assets on behalf of the community, it is not for profit and democratically accountable to its members. It has support from Marshfield Parish Council and South Gloucestershire Council.
We believe in i) collective action for community benefit, ii) working towards net zero, iii) partnership working with other organisations, iv) small scale community led development.
Its current priorities are
i) affordable housing for local people with a focus on social housing ( Wheatfield Barns). For many decades there has been a failure to build homes that are within reach of local people and MCLT aim to help provide affordable housing for Marshfield which will give long term security to tenants.
Our Wheatfield Barns development which shortly will have people living there, , brings to life the aim of the scheme to enable local people to afford to live in the village and possibly return to their home village, rather than be forced to move elsewhere for accommodation and work.
ii) locally generated clean energy and energy conservation.
The MCLT Energy Working Group are exploring options for generating community energy which is now being discussed favourably at government level. They also have events, some of which ae in partnership with Retrofit West, which aim to help people use their energy more efficiently and save on energy costs.
WHO WE ARE : MCLT Board of Directors
Christine Eden, chair: Oliver Shirley, vice chair: John Fuller, secretary: Simon Turner, treasurer: Jim Brookes: Ian Dawes: Ian Jones: Caroline Page: Simon Pressdee: Ros Snow.
HOW TO CONTACT MCLT
QUERIES OR COMMENTS TO: christine.eden@marshfieldclt.org OR secretary@marshfieldclt.org
Postal address at end of this post.
UPDATE ON WHEATFIELD BARNS November 13 2025
The 5 x Shared ownership houses may become available in the New Year as rental properties. Keep watching here and on the MCLT section of the Tolzey Hall Notice Board for news.
Applicants with a local connection to Marshfield and a housing need will be given priority in the allocation of all Wheatfield Barns homes.
FULL DETAILS OF THE HOUSING PRIORITISATION SCHEME ARE AVAILABLE UNDER RECENT POSTS
https://marshfieldclt.org/wheatfield-barns-draft-housing-prioritisation-scheme .
SEE PARAS 4 AND 5 FOR FULL DETAILS OF LOCAL CONNECTION CRITERIA. Applicants for the rental properties have to be registered with South Gloucestershire Council HomeChoice and show that immediately preceding the date of advertising the Affordable Dwelling they were a Local Needs Persons i.e. that they were in Housing Need and had one of the following Local Connections:
A SUMMARY IS GIVEN HERE OF PRIORITIES. Applicants satisfying para. 4.1 have the highest priority. This covers those who have been resident within the Parish of Provision (which is Marshfield) for a current continuous period of at least three years, or a continuous period of at least five years in the preceding eight, or a continuous period of at least ten years within the last twenty years.
Applicants satisfying 4.2 have the second highest priority. This covers those who have been in Permanent Employment within Marshfield for a continuous period of at least two years, or have a Close Family Member who is living and has lived in the Parish of Marshfield for a continuous period of at least five years, or been resident within the Parish of Marshfield for a continuous period for at least the past two years.
If there are no applicants from Marshfield who meet the housing need and local connection criteria, applicants from surrounding parishes will be considered.
Questions to: christine.eden@marshfieldclt.org
How to become a member of MCLT
If you would like to join MCLT you can download the overview part of the leaflet (pdf 10mb) but the most important bit is the MCLT membership application form (pdf 1mb)
This web site is in two parts.
Firstly, there is a bunch of background information about our CLT and CLTs in general. You can see what’s available in the menu at the top of each page. Secondly, there is a blog which we use to post news and opinion. This is categorised by subject area and you can see a list of categories on this page (where it is displayed depends on how you are viewing the site). Click on a category to see all the information relevant to that category.
Marshfield Community Land Trust Ltd is Registered with the Financial Conduct Authority ( 7361), Registered under the Cooperative Benefits Societies Act 2014, Registered Office, Tolzey Hall, 41 High Street, Marshfield SN14 8LR