Granby 4 Streets Community Land Trust

 
 

This is what we’re for, and how we’ve been doing it

Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust is about creating a thriving, vibrant mixed community, building on the existing creativity, energy and commitment within the community, where people from all walks of life can live, work and play. Our vision for Granby Four Streets is a neighbourhood which:

  • Has streets full of plants, creating the greenest quarter in the city

  • Is architecturally rich, with imaginative renovations of Victorian terraces 

  • Is a thriving multi-cultural, multi-racial area

  • Is sociable, safe and welcoming 

  • Has an arts and social hub with a community café

  • Continues to organise and celebrate our own monthly street market.

 

Housing

We have renovated 13 houses on Cairns St so far - six for low cost homeownership, five for affordable rent and two as our Winter Garden. We’ve done this this alongside other housing providers and developers bringing the remaining properties in the Four Streets neighbourhood back into use.  

 

 
 

Greening Granby - making spaces and places

We want to continue our planting and see generous, high quality, green public and social spaces throughout the Four Streets, including in our Winter Garden, and connecting up the length of Granby Street. 

 

 
 

High Environmental Standards

We are maintaining the integrity of the four streets and their unique characteristics, the generous room sizes and the adaptability of the houses.  We offer a model for imaginative renovations of Victorian terraces, which at the same time ensure that houses are affordable for residents now and in the long term.

 

Local Businesses 

We intend to renovate the empty shops at the junction of Cairns Street and Granby Street as the basis of a productive community and retail area. So that, along with our monthly Street Market, this can become the hub for supporting local retail, social and creative enterprises and community organisations and be the start of a new phase in the life of Granby as a high street once again.

 

 

Granby Market 

Granby Street is the site of our now monthly street market and events space – which we’ve has now been running since 2010. Eventually we’d like this run down the length of Granby St, visible from Princes Avenue and sowing the seed for the re-establishment of shops and businesses along Granby Street.

 

Building jobs and training schemes 

We use all of our projects to deliver employment for local people, in an area where unemployment is a major concern, especially among young people. We want the physical act of rebuilding to not only boost the local economy – but offer residents a way of shaping their lives and the area’s future.